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MWITA-ASDO-2026-012 · Evidence A · P1

Explicit or implicit cues to a user's racial identity significantly changed recommendations across popular consumer LLMs, while model explanations obscured that identity had influenced the output.

What this does not establish

Model text differences do not measure human uptake, conversion, satisfaction or realized discrimination; U.S. racial cues do not map unchanged to other cultures or protected characteristics.

Counterevidence & uncertainty

The same identity-linked shifts appeared whether users intentionally disclosed identity or revealed it indirectly, undermining a simple personalization-consent interpretation.

What would change the reading

Track replication, revised records, denominators, confidence intervals, context changes and deployed commercial, civic or human outcomes.

Primary routes

  1. ASDO-S012https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.1254/Open source record →

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