Framing the Narrative: Ideological Mimicry in Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.38256 · cs.CL, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-10-02

Code: https://github.com/oliviams/poli-shift

Terminology

• Robustness — 13× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• LLM judge — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Coding — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic System — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Self-consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sycophancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Large Means Left: Political Bias in Large Language Models Increases with Their Number of Parameters
• Beyond Partisan Leaning: A Comparative Analysis of Political Bias in Large Language Models

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