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Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-10-07/study-claude-chatgpt-ai-bots-offer-different-shopping-prices-based-on-wealth
39•sbulaev•1h ago

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dTal•49m ago
As predictable as water running downhill. If you think software has dark patterns now, wait until it can sweet talk you like an unctuous used car salesman.

First rule of digital sovereignty: all software you don't control will be used against you.

ChrisArchitect•24m ago
Title is: Study Shows AI Chatbots Offer the Rich Higher Price Recommendations

Can we just have a link to the study? (that you previously submitted)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24927

LogicFailsMe•13m ago
Clearly, there's an arbitrage opportunity here by routing the requests of the rich through a poor person's account. Win/win for the free market once again!
throwaway81523•4m ago
Do we know it's not the other way around? Maybe they charge poorer people more. So many things work like that.
colsandurz•8m ago
Just another reason to get a local model
ai-x•3m ago
only if you are ok with working with an idiot model and lose out on potential upsides of using a smarter model. Penny-wise, pound-foolish

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Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-10-07/study-claude-chatgpt-ai-bots-offer-differen...
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