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Decoding AI’s Bias: What Loss Aversion Means for Advertising Research
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Decoding AI’s Bias: What Loss Aversion Means for Advertising Research

  • Psychology of GenAI
September 12, 2025
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This experiment, part of the ARF’s “Psychology of Gen AI” series, reveals how models like ChatGPT not only replicate human cognitive biases, such as loss aversion, but also compress variability into uniform patterns. This raises concerns for advertising researchers who rely on authentic insights into consumer behavior.
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