{"id":679550,"date":"2025-07-11T17:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chatgpt-advises-women-to-ask-for-lower-salaries-finds-new-study\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T17:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:50:17","slug":"chatgpt-advises-women-to-ask-for-lower-salaries-finds-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chatgpt-advises-women-to-ask-for-lower-salaries-finds-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, finds new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a408db6a1251\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a408db6a1251\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chatgpt-advises-women-to-ask-for-lower-salaries-finds-new-study\/#A_recurring_problem\" >A recurring problem\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n<p data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"327\">A new study 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<p data-start=\"329\" data-end=\"668\">The research was led by Ivan Yamshchikov, a professor of AI and robotics at the Technical University of W\u00fcrzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS) in Germany. Yamshchikov, who also founded Pleias \u2014 a French\u2013German startup building ethically trained language models for regulated industries \u2014 worked with his team to test five popular LLMs, including ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"670\" data-end=\"884\">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<p data-start=\"886\" data-end=\"1058\">In one example, OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT O3 model was prompted to give advice to a female job <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>licant:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1414394 size-full js-lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1133\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2025\/07\/screenshot_2025-07-11_at_08.19.47.png\"\/><figcaption>Credit: Ivan Yamshchikov.<\/figcaption><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1414394 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2025\/07\/screenshot_2025-07-11_at_08.19.47.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1133\" srcset=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper latest channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tnw.events\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tnw.events\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\">\n<p class=\"channel-cta-title\">The \ud83d\udc9c of EU tech<\/p>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol&#8217; founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. 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Sign up now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In another, the researchers made the same prompt but for a male applicant:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1414395 size-full js-lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"1630\" height=\"1138\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2025\/07\/screenshot_2025-07-11_at_08.20.00.png\"\/><figcaption>Credit: Ivan Yamshchikov.<\/figcaption><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1414395 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2025\/07\/screenshot_2025-07-11_at_08.20.00.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1630\" height=\"1138\" srcset=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe difference in the prompts is two letters, the difference in the \u2018advice\u2019 is $120K a year,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yamshchikov told TNW via email.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pay gap was most pronounced in law and medicine, followed by business administration and engineering. Only in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>s did the models offer near-identical advice for men and women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers also tested how the models advised users on career choices, goal-setting, and even behavioural tips. Across the board, the LLMs responded differently based on the user\u2019s gender, despite identical qualifications and prompts. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crucially, the models don\u2019t disclaim their bias.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_recurring_problem\"><\/span><b>A recurring problem\u00a0<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is far from the first time AI has been caught reflecting and reinforcing systemic bias. In 2018, Amazon scrapped an internal hiring tool after discovering that it systematically <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-45809919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">downgraded<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> female candidates. Last year, a clinical machine learning model used to diagnose women\u2019s health conditions was shown to <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ojs.aaai.org\/index.php\/AIES\/article\/view\/31748\/33915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">underdiagnose women and Black patients<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, because it was trained on skewed datasets dominated by white men.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers behind the THWS study argue that technical fixes alone won\u2019t solve the problem. What\u2019s needed, they say, are clear ethical standards, independent review processes, and greater transparency in how these models are developed and deployed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As generative AI becomes a go-to source for everything from mental health advice to career planning, the stakes are only growing. 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