Anthony Biondo

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: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

@Lions don’t respect what a girl like @paigebueckers1 presents against a school

@Lions @UMichFootball How can the lions draft African Americans with the ownerships stance towards white privilege????

let's run it

@Lions @UMichFootball You guys hate Jews!!!

@LionsPR way to push the UM initiative on lions fans you scumbags

Smart kid. Enjoy college, develop more, chance to win a natty and get paid more than the rookie scale. Glad he’s not transferring

Weird

@mikeeduggan Stop lying bro. We were not

Morez Johnson with the intentional trip and the bulldozer on the same play. Both no calls, of course.

Wow

Every time Mara will push off on the pick & roll. Why isn’t he ever called. Full arm extension every time

Wild huh

@CBSSportsCBB Why would there be?

No foul was called on this play to end the first half

Gotta love how the refs insert themselves into the game. So many terrible replays and grandstanding by these high steppers.

@Matt_Reynoldson @MSU_HYPE Stop it sir. This is the game now. Accept it and have your team play the game or do something better. But quit the sour grapes over the transfer portal and NIL. I don’t see tampering here, that’s a whole different ball of wax.

Sad state of affairs: the team about to win the national championship is just the best batch of transfers money can buy. Not much integrity in that.

Watching this man’s highlights He’s actually a pyscho, huh

When CSN showed a picture of the Cubs Mascots penis live on air 😬

The paesans are moving on 🇮🇹

Oh baby. A real pitcher who can and wants to deal multiple days/innings for his country or team in clutch situations not just against the pilgrims @TarikSkubal @officialsboras bet Yosi any calm it at 6 innings or 50 pitches

@SpartanAvenueFS Fuck you b1g and fuck michigan. Punish these asswipes

The Big Ten just made the most shameless request to the NCAA. Talk about putting a target on your back. spartanavenue.com/the-big-ten-re…