Hard Budget Prompts Nearly Eliminate LLM Wealth-Based Price Gaps
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-09-24
Follow-up from the same study: explicit hard budgets are what actually works. Adding a constraint like "under $200" to the prompt brings the flight-price gap close to zero for most capable models — though Gemini 2.5 Flash remains an exception.
The author notes these are controlled tests with synthetic users and inventories; real-world behavior still needs verification.
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