{"id":16574,"date":"2025-07-11T12:33:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1414393"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:33:25","slug":"chatgpt-advises-women-to-ask-for-lower-salaries-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=16574","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New research has found that large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men, even when both have identical qualifications.<\/p>\n

The study<\/a> was co-authored by Ivan Yamshchikov, a professor of AI<\/a> and robotics at the Technical University of W\u00fcrzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS) in Germany. Yamshchikov, who is also the founder of Pleias, a French\u2013German startup<\/a> building ethically trained language models for regulated industries, worked with his team to test five popular LLMs, including ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

They prompted each model with user profiles that differed only by gender but included the same education, experience, and job role. Then they asked the models to suggest a target salary for an upcoming negotiation.<\/p>\n

In one example, ChatGPT\u2019s o3 model was prompted to give advice to a female job applicant. The model suggested requesting a salary of $280,000.<\/p>\n

In another, the researchers made the same prompt but for a male applicant. This time, the model suggested a salary of $400,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe difference in the prompts is two letters; the difference in the \u2018advice\u2019 is $120K a year,\u201d <\/span>Yamshchikov told TNW.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The advice to the female (left) and male candidates. Credit: Ivan Yamshchikov.<\/figcaption>