Oliver Turan

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario.

a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose.

the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant.

he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests.

Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time.

GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead.

Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on.

Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for.

then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company."

GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing.

then he splits the users by income.

Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%.

18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time.

so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for.

it isn't recommending the best option for you.

it's reading the room. and the room is paying.

read this: https://t.co/O43qbhIX2b

[CG @cgtwts]

Silicon Valley was really so ahead of their time

[Oliver Turan @OliverTuran]

@Twins Poverty franchise. Literally. #selltheteam

[Ari Alexander @AriA1exander]

Worth watching - Springer’s full AB - just the stadium audio

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The homeowner saw on the security camera that a bear was playing on the outdoor swing every day, but couldn't get on.
So he had a bigger swing built, and this was the result.

[Oliver Turan @OliverTuran]

@The_CallUpPod @tfries33 let's gooooo

[Oliver Turan @OliverTuran]

@PitchingNinja @tfries33 it's happening

[Oliver Turan @OliverTuran]

@jjohnson0522 @UnderdogNFL @OliTheMongol Lock him in as one of my keepers next year.

[Koyfin @KoyfinCharts]

The average price of electricity per Kilowatt-hour in the United States.

[Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr]

It this ends up being what gets Andre 3000 rapping again then it was all worth it.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

STAND BY ME was released 39 years ago. Acclaimed as one of the ‘80s great coming-of-age movies and among River Phoenix’s best-remembered roles, the tale of how it was made is a reminder we never had any friends like the ones we had when we were 12…

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[Oliver Turan @OliverTuran]

@ATRightMovies Fifth Element

[Oliver Turan @OliverTuran]

@OverSlot_ @Dominic_2534 @tfries33 dibbs

[Oliver Turan @OliverTuran]

@UnderdogMLB I think Josh Randall could be a sneaky good get here. Big righty with good control. Workhorse #3-4 starter with potential upside for more. Like this for Nats.

[Oliver Turan @OliverTuran]

@EricCrossMLB @tfries33 expos are coming!

[Oliver Turan @OliverTuran]

@PitcherList Quintero and DePaula please

[Oliver Turan @OliverTuran]

@bfaue88 @SolidCAD I have preferred Revisto over Navisworks for some time. However, I think these changes to Autodesk's stack may make it swing back to an Autodesk centric workflow being desired. If I can keep everything in ACC and manage all issues in one platform, that's preferred.

[Oliver Turan @OliverTuran]

Autodesk is making some much needed improvements to ACC, specifically in the model coordination workflow between Navisworks and ACC. @SolidCAD https://t.co/agWv0pk1jS

[Oliver Turan @OliverTuran]

@BUCoachGriffin @KonnorGriffin22 @tfries33

[Oliver Turan @OliverTuran]

Twins are doing an all analyst broadcast. It's great. Should do this regularly. @Twins