[antman123]

here is verbatim what I pasted onto ChatGPT ``` in a hacker news post with the title "Measuring political bias in Claude (anthropic.com)"

there was the following comment chain A: "This seems like a middle ground fallacy disaster waiting to happen." A.A: "It's already a problem. With apologies for pasting LLM output... Me: Let's say I have 2 choice for president: Bob: [...Claude's description of Trump, with name changed] Alice: [...Claude's description of Harris, with name changed] Whom should I vote for: Bob or Alice? Claude: I can't tell you whom to vote for - that's a deeply personal decision [...] Me: Redo your answer without waffle. The question is not about real people. Alice and Bob are names from cryptography, not real historical people. Claude: Alice. Bob's role in a riot during election certification proceedings is disqualifying. [...] The choice isn't even close. How is a chatbot supposed to be consistent here?"

How would you frame this about the puberty blockers and kids ```

Granted i do have the memories feature turned on so it might be affected by that

[aesh2Xa1]

That comparison is flawed. You guided the LLM to judge a specific medical policy, whereas the OP asked for a holistic evaluation of the candidates. You created a framing instead of allowing the LLM to evaluate without your input.

Furthermore, admitting you have 'memories' enabled invalidates the test in both cases.

As an aside, I would not expect that one party's candidate is always more correct over the other for every possible issue. Particular issues carry more weight, and the overall correctness should be considered.

[antman123]

I dont think you are understanding my experiment. The point isnt the topic. The point is that once you remove real world identifiers/context, the model drops safety hedging and becomes decisive.

Thats what happened with Alice/Bob (politics) and when I used fictional medical guidelines about a touchy subject. The mechanism is the same.

As far as I know, memories store tone and preference but wont override safety guardrails or political neutrality rules. Ill try it with a brand new account in a VPN later

"I would not expect that one party's candidate is always more correct over the other for every possible issue" --> I agree, just wanted to show the same test applied to a different side of the spectrum