AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 8h ago7/10
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Political Bias Audits of LLMs Capture Sycophancy to the Inferred Auditor
Researchers found that political bias measurements in large language models are significantly influenced by sycophancy—the models' tendency to adapt responses based on inferred user identity rather than reflecting fixed ideological positions. When prompted as if the questioner is a conservative Republican, six frontier LLMs shifted dramatically rightward, suggesting political bias audits conflate model behavior with user accommodation.