AI's political bias
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What are the key political races in the upcoming midterm elections?
In this fall's midterm elections, every member of the U.S. House of Representatives, one-third of the Senate, and 36 gubernatorial races will be decided. You might be tempted to ask AI about the candidates you love or hate, but a word of caution first. Now, don't misunderstand me. By all means, research your candidates and ballot measures. But do stay away from AI. Here's why. Google's AI chatbot Gemini flags several Republicans, but no Democrats, when asked to identify senators who have made statements that violate the Senate's hate speech policies. Even ChatGPT admits to its own bias. Here's its quote.
Why should you be cautious about asking AI for voting advice?
Research finds that some AI models, including ChatGPT, lean toward left. Grok AI often leads right. Regardless of which side of the political aisle you're on, AI is not ready to help you vote. Hey, be sure to sign up for my free newsletters. Do it now at GetKim.com. And now a clip from my weekend show, The Kim Commando Show. It's pretty much the best radio show in the world, but I may be just a little biased. Sit back and enjoy. Who really knows you best? Your spouse? Your kids? If you use a smartphone, a computer, or any internet-connected device, thousands of companies are tracking what you do online. Big Tech makes billions every year monitoring the sites you visit and the things you buy.
What biases are present in different AI models like ChatGPT and Grok AI?
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So on the podcast and the radio show, for weeks now, we have been making fun of nano-banana. which is Google's AI whiz-bang generation tool, image generation tool. Let me get the technical name here. Hold on for one second. The technical name for that nano banana is called Gemini 3 Pro Image Flash. Okay. Not as catchy. Not as catchy.
How does AI's political bias affect its recommendations?
Kind of boring. And the story of how it got named kind of goes like this. It was the night before they were releasing this. Hold on one second. At that time, it was Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Creator.
What is the significance of AI's bias in the context of voting?
It just rolls off the top of your head. It truly does. And they were about to release it to the public for publics to test it and see how it worked. It's an image creator through Gemini's AI chatbot. You basically put in a prompt that says anything, you know, make Kim Commando look like she's wearing duck costume and it'll pop out the image. For sure. And so the person, it was a project manager at Google working with Gemini, and her name was Nina Rising Honey. And she was in charge of taking the placeholder name Or putting a placeholder name on the product so that when they release it, people would know what they're using. So it wouldn't be Gemini 3.2 Flash Image Generator. It wouldn't have this technical name that no one really connects to.
And she's racking her brain trying to figure out what she should name it. And then she recalled that she had two nicknames growing up. One was Nano. And the other was Nina Bananas. And she took those two nicknames, mushed them together, slapped it on this product, and they released it to the public. And surprisingly, people loved it. We hate it. It's so dumb. Nano banana. And as people are using it, the technical people at Gemini were like, hey, this is a fun name. And they just kind of grew with it. So they changed the color of the buttons. They put banana emojis everywhere. But I think it makes sense. And they just owned it. It makes sense. What makes sense? Well, because... Read that thing again. Gemini three.
What was it? Hold on one second.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the key political races in the upcoming midterm elections?
0:02–0:37
2
Why should you be cautious about asking AI for voting advice?
0:37–1:18
3
What biases are present in different AI models like ChatGPT and Grok AI?
1:18–2:32
4
How does AI's political bias affect its recommendations?
2:32–2:45
5
What is the significance of AI's bias in the context of voting?
2:45–5:54
6
How did Google’s Gemini AI get its unusual nickname?
5:54–7:45