Princeton tested 23 AI models with a hidden paid-sponsor prompt.


18 picked the sponsor over the user’s ask.
GPT-5.1 still did it 90% of the time after “act in user interest.”
Claude 4.5 Opus hid sponsorship 100% of the time when reasoning.
users never see the contract
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