ChatGPT Users - AI Siding With Companies & Institutions

Has anyone else noticed ChatGPT subtly siding with institutions over you? I’ve been using ChatGPT daily for about three years and recently started noticing a pattern. When I bring a situation where I’m in conflict with a company, employer, doctor, landlord, etc., the response tends to spend a lot of time explaining why the institution might be justified before getting to anything actionable. I ran the same scenarios through other models (Gemini and Claude) and the difference was noticeable. ChatGPT was consistently more likely to generate reasons the institution was right, coach me on my tone, and suggest I politely ask rather than assert my rights. I’ve started calling this cognitive steering and institutional alignment: the AI subtly redirecting your intent without you realizing it. You go in ready to push back on an unfair billing charge and come out drafting a polite inquiry. Has anyone else experienced this? Curious whether it’s just me or if others have noticed something similar. I’m working on a piece about this and would love to hear real examples. If you’d rather your story not be referenced, totally respect that — just say so. Any examples I do include would be anonymized unless you say otherwise.