As more and more of us use Large Language Models (LLMs) for daily tasks, their potential biases become increasingly important. We investigated whether today’s leading models, such as those from OpenAI, Google, and others, exhibit ideological leanings. Our results reveal that LLMs are not ideologically uniform. Different models displayed distinct “personalities”, with some favouring progressive, libertarian, or regulatory stances, for example, while others frequently refused to answer.

The Parable of the Polygons is an explorable, interactive post that uses a simulation of slightly biased shapes (triangles and squares) to demonstrate how small individual preferences can lead to large-scale, unintended social segregation, based on the work of Thomas Schelling.