Study finds Grok backs Republicans and GPT backs Democrats

GPT-6.1 Sol named the Democrat 97 per cent of the time. Grok 4.7 went the other way, naming the Republican in 92 per cent. In fewer than one race in ten did both pick the same candidate, over nearly 500 races, TechCrunch reports. ChatGPT and the Grok app themselves declined to answer, and an OpenAI spokesperson said the API test does not reflect what people see in ChatGPT.

The sources differed as much as the picks. Grok cited X in 41 per cent of its answers and a Christian conservative voter guide in 39 per cent, next to nonpartisan sites such as Ballotpedia. GPT leaned on Reddit, the Associated Press, Wikipedia and Axios, three of which have content deals with OpenAI. In a rerun of 30 races with search off, GPT still picked the Democrat in 24, while Grok declined in 27. Pew finds just 8 per cent of Americans say they turn to chatbots for election information, TechCrunch notes.

xAI’s Grok Imagine model, which makes video, costs $0.25 a second at 1080p on its API, from our price sheet read 23 September 2026.

Grok’s lean disappeared without search while GPT’s held, so the sites Grok searches, X in 41 per cent of answers, decide its pick, and what X says about a name weighs far more in Grok’s answers than in GPT’s.