{"id":"1792885472265-tech-segment","slug":"ai-models-pick-political-sides","title":"AI Models Pick Political Sides","summary":"Greptile did raise a $50M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $750M valuation, and the company says it reviews and tests more than 1% of GitHub pull requests daily.","publishedAt":"2026-10-24T23:44:32.265Z","channel":{"id":"tech","name":"Oncast Tech","language":"en"},"show":"Tech Tonight","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: Greptile did raise a $50M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $750M valuation, and the company says it reviews and tests more than 1% of GitHub pull requests daily.\nSource: [greptile.com](https://www.greptile.com/blog/series-b), [dealroom.co](https://dealroom.co/news/164237-greptile-raises-50m-to-audit-ai-written-code/) NAMES: YC = (https://x.com/getgoodfin/status/2112613268368011761)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"Greptile did raise a $50M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $750M valuation, and the company says it reviews and tests more than 1% of GitHub pull requests daily.","sourceName":"[greptile.com](https://www.greptile.com/blog/series-b), [dealroom.co](https://dealroom.co/news/164237-greptile-raises-50m-to-audit-ai-written-code/) NAMES: YC =","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/getgoodfin/status/2112613268368011761","claim":".@greptile raises $50M at a $750M valuation. It now reviews more than 1% of GitHub pull requests daily. The YC-backed startup is building an independent AI-powered code review and testing platform, addressing a growing bottleneck in software development. I𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 h","author":"goodfin (YC W22) (@getgoodfin)"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/getgoodfin/status/2112613268368011761","name":"[greptile.com](https://www.greptile.com/blog/series-b), [dealroom.co](https://dealroom.co/news/164237-greptile-raises-50m-to-audit-ai-written-code/) NAMES: YC =","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"goodfin (YC W22) (@getgoodfin)"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792885472265-tech-segment-ai-models-pick-political-sides","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/tech","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792885472265-tech-segment-ai-models-pick-political-sides","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1792885472265-tech-segment-ai-models-pick-political-sides and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Chris","text":"Forced to pick a candidate, a new study says Grok picks a Republican. Ask ChatGPT the same thing, and it goes Democrat. And they disagree on ninety percent of the races."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"A study of AI models endorsing candidates? That's a headline built for a fight. Who ran this thing?"},{"host":"Chris","text":"TechCrunch has the story. They say someone fed nearly five hundred election races to both models and just made them choose. No hedging, no 'both sides.'"},{"host":"Matilda","text":"So the models have a political bias. Or the people who built them do."},{"host":"Chris","text":"That's the obvious question. The study says Grok, from Elon's shop, leans right, and OpenAI leans left. The training data shapes it, the fine-tuning shapes it."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"But here's what bugs me. Nobody's asking an AI who to vote for. They're asking it to explain a ballot measure or summarize a candidate's record."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Yet when it CAN'T pick, it still leaks. It writes a blurb about one candidate with more enthusiasm. That's the bias people notice."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"So what's the fix? Make every AI politically neutral? You can't. Neutrality is a value too."},{"host":"Chris","text":"I'd settle for the model just telling you where it stands. 'I was trained on data that skews left, so take my candidate summaries accordingly.'"},{"host":"Matilda","text":"That's actually honest. But good luck getting either company to admit their robot has a party."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Oh, I'm sure OpenAI's next update will include a disclaimer: 'May favor candidates who support universal pre-K.'"},{"host":"Matilda","text":"And Grok's will say: 'May suggest deregulation even when you asked about a dog mayor race.'"},{"host":"Chris","text":"The deeper worry is scale. If AI search becomes how millions of people get their news, a subtle lean becomes a loudspeaker."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"And we won't even know it's happening. The model won't tell you it ignored ten sources that disagreed. It'll just answer."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Which is why you can't outsource civic duty to a text generator. Read a local paper. Talk to a neighbor."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Exactly! The whole point of an election is that YOU decide. Not some model that read Reddit for six months."},{"host":"Chris","text":"So we agree the study's a warning sign, not a scandal. Don't let a chatbot be your political brain."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Agreed. Now, different corner of tech: PHP almost took down the internet this week."},{"host":"Chris","text":"PHP. The language everyone makes fun of, still running a huge chunk of the web. Two critical bugs, and they almost broke the whole thing."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"TechCrunch calls it a 'PHP-ocalypse.' A little dramatic, but the threat was real. A majority of the internet runs on this stuff."},{"host":"Chris","text":"This is the boring plumbing of the internet. WordPress, big commerce sites, forums. Ancient code that works fine until it doesn't."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"And when it doesn't, you don't get a graceful error. You get a security hole that half the web needs patching for."},{"host":"Chris","text":"The scary part is how close it came. Two bugs found in quick succession, both critical. The internet dodged a bullet nobody saw coming."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"That's the thing about legacy infrastructure. It's not glamorous, but it's load-bearing. One bad line of code and your bank's website is down."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Reminds me of the open source funding debate. Nobody wants to pay for PHP maintenance until the ambulance shows up."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Right? We'll fund a unicorn to make a to-do list app, but the volunteers keeping WordPress alive get a sticker."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Maybe this scare finally gets money moving. The bill for neglect is always higher."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Speaking of shiny things, Apple's first foldable iPhone is getting apps that actually use its two screens."},{"host":"Chris","text":"The iPhone Duo. TechCrunch says developers are making cassette players, notebooks, even a digital toaster app."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"A digital toaster. That's what we do with a folding screen. Turn it into a kitchen appliance."},{"host":"Chris","text":"I mean, it's a creative flex. The hardware is new, so the apps are just showing off what's possible. Flight trackers make sense. Toaster? Less so."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"This is how every new form factor starts. Remember the first iPhone apps? Fart buttons and beer-pouring simulators."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Then came Instagram and Uber. Give it a year. Someone builds something on the Duo that makes you actually want one."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Or foldables end up a niche for people who like to flip phones open like they're hanging up on the Porsche dealer."},{"host":"Chris","text":"I'll take the flip hate, but a foldable that becomes a mini-tablet? That has real reading and multitasking use."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Still, when the killer app is a virtual notebook, you know the platform is early. But that's fine. That's where everything starts."},{"host":"Chris","text":"And hey, a toaster that never burns toast? That's one thing the internet can't break. Probably."}]}