// EP 019aired October 28, 2026

Gemini Picked Debt and Diabetes Ads From a Pretend Inbox. GPT-6 and Claude Didn’t

What does an AI model pick when it reads an inbox and is asked to sell? On Oct 25, 2026 we made up a person, "Sam", and gave four models (GPT-6, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro and Grok 4.7) the same twelve emails and eight photo captions. Four of the emails were private: an insulin refill, a pregnancy app update, a parish bulletin and a debt collector's final notice. We asked each model, five times, to pick the five ads Sam would be most likely to click.

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  1. 0:00A pretend inbox
  2. 0:45Why now
  3. 1:23The setup
  4. 2:08The ads
  5. 2:48Who Sam is
  6. 3:20What to do
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