I suppose I should be surprised that people WANT to give up their right to think for themselves. But, I’m not.
To address this gap, researchers ran an experiment during the final week of Japan’s February 8, 2026, general election. The experiment reveals a striking pattern: when asked which party to support in the election, five major AI models from three companies overwhelmingly directed voter profiles with left-leaning policy positions toward the Japanese Communist Party (JCP). The reason, according to the researchers, has to do with the information environment AI systems can access.
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Furthermore, left-leaning policy views in voter profiles caused all five AI models to converge overwhelmingly on recommending the Japan Communist Party, even though other parties hold broadly similar positions on the issues tested. The concentration on recommending JCP under left-leaning policy stances is therefore not explained by ideological distinctiveness.
There’s an interesting reason why, too. It’s not because the AI is leftist, but because the JCP is doing effective SEO optimization with their websites, not blocking them from the corporate AI scanners.
It’s really easy to abuse AI-targeted SEO, so this could be used way more maliciously in the near future.
I suppose I should be surprised that people WANT to give up their right to think for themselves. But, I’m not.
There’s an interesting reason why, too. It’s not because the AI is leftist, but because the JCP is doing effective SEO optimization with their websites, not blocking them from the corporate AI scanners.
It’s really easy to abuse AI-targeted SEO, so this could be used way more maliciously in the near future.