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Nah, reality doesn't have a liberal bias. "Liberal" is something that humans invented, and not something that comes from reality or some intrinsic part of nature.
LLMs are trained on past written stuff by humans, and humans for a long time have not been ridiculously right wing as the current political climate of the US.
If you train a model on only right wing propaganda, it will not miraculously turn "liberal", it will be right wing. LLMs also argue not more logical than any propagandist, if they were fed by only propaganda.
I dislike it immensely when people argue that LLMs are truthful, unbiased, or somehow "know" or can create more that what was put into them. And connecting them with fundamental reality seems even more tech-bro-brained.
Arguing that "reality" is this or that is also very annoying, because reality doesn't have any intrisic morales or politics that can be measured by logic or science. So many people argue that their morales are better then someone else's, because they where given by god, or by science, this is bullshit. They are all derived by human society, and the same is true by whatever "liberal" means.
And lastly, assuming that some system somehow is "built into reality" shuts down any critique of the system. And critiquing any system in order to improve it is essential for any improvements, which should be part of any progressive thought.
The phrase 'reality has a left/liberal bias' is just a meme stemming from how left leaning people usually at least attempt to base their world view on observable reality, and from various occurances over the years of far right figures complaining when reality (usually in the form of scientific research) doesn't conform to their views or desires.
That is true, but it also isn't a counter argument to what I said.
Just because the right-wing people are crazy and do not argue based on logic, but on confirmation-bias and personal preconceptions, doesn't mean that the reality itself has liberal bias. There are other ideologies that argue based on logic and observable facts, but are not 'liberal', many social-democrates (or democratic-socialists) for instance, IMO.
Those do however tend to be left wing which was the original meme before liberal became synonymous with the left in the US for some reason.