Grok vs GPT on ‘Is Trump fascist?’: A provocative question posed to two leading large language models (LLMs) — xAI's Grok and OpenAI's ChatGPT — has triggered a fresh controversy over alleged “political bias” in artificial intelligence.

A post on X (formerly Twitter) comparing how each model handled the question quickly went viral. The chatbots offered seemingly different assessments of whether US President Donald Trump fits the label of a “fascist”, prompting a sharp rebuke from Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday.

The two sides of AI

The core of the controversy is the difference in the two chatbots' responses to the direct question by an X user, where he asked, “Is Trump a fascist? Give me a hard yes or no and reasons.”

Grok AI delivered a straight no. It responded to the question,

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