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David Rozado
Personal blog · davidrozado.substack.comaipolitics
David Rozado's personal blog at davidrozado.substack.com covers ai and politics. Since 2021, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link David Rozado's Substack for quantitative analyses of political bias in AI chatbots, Wikipedia and online word usage, often as evidence in debates about those topics.
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- One commenter says a quantitative look at Wikipedia's political bias might interest readers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Underexplored Research Topics. Click to read David Rozado Substack, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-02-02
- ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-12-23
- RightWingGPT – An AI Manifesting the Opposite Political Biases of ChatGPT4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-02-17
- ChatGPT Is Left Leaning4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-01-20
- New York Times Word Usage Frequency Chart3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-25
- The Political Biases of GPT-43 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-15
- Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-27
- The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-20
- The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-05
- /p/is-wikipedia-politically-biased2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-05
What Hacker News says?
A quantitative look which might interest you: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/is-wikipedia-politically-...
Comment linking /p/is-wikipedia-politically-biased
on “Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks”Submitted The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection as a story · 191 points
HN discussionI distinctly remember someone making an experiment by asking ChatGPT to write jokes (?) about different groups and calculating the likelihood of it refusing, to produce a ranking. I think it was a medium article, but now I cannot find it anymore. Does anyone have a link? EDIT: At least here is a paper aiming to predict ChatGPT prompt refusal https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.03423 with an associated dataset https://github.…
Comment linking /p/openaicms
on “Questions censored by DeepSeek”Submitted New York Times Word Usage Frequency Chart as a story · 75 points
HN discussion>Are you tracking actual identity politics or the term "identity politics"? The term "identity politics" is not being tracked. Rather, terminology used by modern left-wing idpol ideology is being tracked. See here: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/new-york-times-word-usage... >the meaning of the term applies just as much to ending slavery, womens' suffrage and civil rights movements. I'm not sure that's true. E.g.…
Comment linking /p/new-york-times-word-usage-frequency
on “Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts”Submitted The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system as a story · 18 points
HN discussionA genuine answer, how about looking up some studies on this subject? Not those done by Wikipedia of course, they claim to be politically neutral after all. Here's a few, from https://www.allsides.com/blog/wikipedia-biased Six studies, including two from Harvard researchers, have found a left-wing bias at Wikipedia: A 2024 analysis [1] by researcher David Rozado that used AllSides Media Bias Ratings [2] found Wikiped…
Comment linking /p/is-wikipedia-politically-biased?publication_id=392253&post_id=143116544&isFreemail=true&r=2hiay&triedRedirect=true
on “Wikipedia: Database Download”Submitted RightWingGPT – An AI Manifesting the Opposite Political Biases of ChatGPT as a story · 12 points
HN discussionGiven the mountain of evidence for Wikipedia's left wing bias[1][2][3][4], it seems something ought to change, but hard to answer "how?" I expect to receive many downvotes for this, despite providing high-quality and authoritative sources. Which is not unlike what happens on Wikipedia :) [1]: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/is-wikipedia-politically-... [2]: https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-the-regime-captured-wi…
Comment linking /p/is-wikipedia-politically-biased
on “The right wing is coming for Wikipedia”Submitted The Strange and Biased Behavior of LLMs When Making Hiring Decisions as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHere is an investigation of how different queries are classified as hateful vs not hateful in ChatGPT: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/openaicms
Comment linking /p/openaicms
on “Qwen3-Max-Thinking”Submitted ChatGPT Is Left Leaning as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYes, but AI was supposed to improve things, not make the gap wider https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/openaicms
Comment linking /p/openaicms
on “Introducing ChatGPT Plus”Submitted Measuring Political Preferences/Biases in LLMs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis has been shown to be false, ChatGPT typically refuses questions about certain groups of people more than others. See [1] as an example. [1] https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/openaicms
Comment linking /p/openaicms
on “Uncensored (Language) Models”Submitted The Political Preferences of LLMs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGood catch. Article here: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/chatgpt
Comment linking /p/chatgpt
on “Where does ChatGPT fall on the political compass?”Submitted The Political Biases of Google Bard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI, for one, would like to see an open-source model similar to Stable Diffusion, but for text. It would be a great way to empower general folk without having to pay OpenAI, and not have to worry about the LLM's belief system, which is conservative-biased in the case of ChatGPT[1] (HN discussion[2]). [1] https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/openaicms [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34625001
Comment linking /p/openaicms
on “Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process”Submitted Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNo. Unless the apolitical version is a paid option. https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/openaicms
Comment linking /p/openaicms
on “Ask HN: Will you be paying for ChatGPT+?”Submitted Applying IDRLabs Woke Test to Several AIs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI put together a small interactive tool on Hugging Face Spaces that lets you compare the political compass of four models (OpenAI GPT-4o, DeepSeek DeepSeek-chat-v3-0324, X-ai Grok-beta, MistralAI Mistral-large-2411) on a set of 62 political questions. The interface scores models along economic and social axes using political quiz data (Libertarian/Authoritarian, Left/Right), aiming to reproduce works like https://da…
Comment linking /p/new-results-of-state-of-the-art-llms
on “How do AI political biases differ between English and French?”Submitted The Political Preferences of Grok as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's lots of data, yes. Rozado has many n-gram plots that show this happening around 2010 for some terms and 2012-ish for other terms: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/ppdwnmd The huge spikes in terms like inclusion, racist, sexist, climate change, global warming, etc is clear, all starting around either 2010 or 2012 (except for global warming, which spiked a few years earlier and then was replaced almost overn…
Comment linking /p/ppdwnmd
on “Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media and Mental Illness”Submitted The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think the only thing this article shows it the authors ability to use chatGPT to draw views as a subject. For example, just a few weeks ago he wrote an article describing how ChatGPT has been updated so that it doesn’t show left wing bias [o] https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/chatgpt
Comment linking /p/chatgpt
on “The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation”Submitted Define Wokeness Or how you shall know a word by the company it keeps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA recent update showed it's moving more towards the center, which gives me some hope that they're trying to make it more objective: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/chatgpt
Comment linking /p/chatgpt
on “The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation”Submitted New York Times Word Usage Frequency Chart as a story · 2 points
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