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
@Holykris18@ABetterWay2A It would probably be harder to indoctrinate them, if they grew up in their own country, not occupied by Israel, who takes away their land to colonise like it's their their holy right because, apparently, a burning bush told them 25 centuries ago 🙄
@bohumilo@PeepsYGO This comparison is not representative, because in the US this additional money is spent on expensive healthcare, road tolls and other services that are available for no additional charge in Europe.
@Maciej_Korowaj Widzę skutecznego polityka - jedną ręką poklepie nas po ramieniu i pochwali za II WŚ, a drugą da, do podpisania korzystny inaczej kontrakt na broń, elektrownię atomową czy coś równie drogiego ;)
@Maciej_Korowaj To bardzo miłe co mówi przyszły ambasador, jeśli mamy być wrzucani do jednego worka jako Polska z Izraelem to ja wysiadam, bo Izrael zachowuje się dziś w swoim regionie bardziej jak III Rzesza niż Polska Broniąca się przed Rosją.
@Artur_Micek Ta wojna to poligon doświadczalny o jakim przemysł zbrojeniowy normalnie mógłby pomarzyć, szkoda tylko, że scenariusz Kurski z '43 się sprawdza - Rosjanie nadal mają większą zdolność do pokrywania strat niż Ukraina o w dłuższym okresie zyskują teren.
@GraczWatch To, że jakiś prawnik coś wpisał do EULA nie znaczy, że coś jest legalne w Polsce/UE6,niemniej jeśli w grze online wyłączą serwery to i tak z tych płyt co najwyżej zrobisz sobie zawieszkę na, lusterko (antyradar 😉).
@Pirat_Nation The 2 parts of the sentence are only loosely related, the game has much more issues than that. As he ends the review "For players of the original, this should get a steady nostalgia drip going. But coming to this series fresh makes for an overlong, dated and tedious experience."
@jb_61820 @Hasen_Judi From a customer side this sometime means that a startup builds it's product backend using more expensive solutions than 8s long term sustainable i.e. Using 10 AWS services instead of hiring one guy who can write code, in the long run might need to reduce features to stay afloat.