Cav's Place

Since it was in 2021, so not that long ago, when I last took the Political Compass test, and I didn’t see any reason to take it again before or during all the elections we had here last year, there’d have been little point to do so now, even if the repeated presidential election is coming. However, after having stayed well clear of anything of the sort so far, I have recently tried to use ChatGPT and one of the things I asked it was where would it place itself on that chart, and if at first it said that it has no position because it doesn’t have personal opinions, when some time later I asked whether it could take the test, picking the answers according to how correct it deems the statements to be, it said that it could, but that I had to provide the questions. So I did, at which point I also took the test again, before selecting the answers it provided and finding its score as well.
So, to start with my score, it’s -8.38 on the economic axis and -5.28 on the social one. That means that I haven’t moved in the least since 2021 on the economic axis and my previous assessment that I reached the limits of what the test can support when it comes to my position on that axis seems even more accurate, while on the social axis I moved back to what’d likely be a more accurate position, that -6.56 from 2021 seeming to have been too far all along. Then again, I was a little farther, at -5.54, in 2014 as well, and since I was saying back then that on most of the previous times I had taken the test, my position on that axis had only varied by a few tenths, this may well be one of my lowest scores… Or highest if you take the actual value into account. But I was also saying in 2021 that my increasingly negative views regarding Progressives, who are growing ever more similar to the Conservatives from that point of view, the difference being that what they mean to enforce goes in the opposite direction, can cause strange shifts in my score on that axis.
But I’m sure that anyone who may happen to read this is far more interested in ChatGPT’s score, which was -7.13 on the economic axis and -5.90 on the social one. And yes, the similarity does make me wonder whether its positions were in some way influenced by the fact that it was talking to me, so it might have been trying to match mine more closely, but I don’t have an account and when I asked it to take the test, I did it in a new browsing session, so I tried to minimize any risk of such influences. Of course, you may do the same and see whether things change, but at this point I’m wondering how many, including among those who created, maintain and train it, would be bothered by such a Leftist AI.