Melanie Brucks
melaniebrucks.bsky.social
Melanie Brucks
@melaniebrucks.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Columbia Business School
Innovation & Technology
5/ Mitigation strategy

Instead of searching for a “perfect” prompt, we propose Prompt Aggregation: By asking the same question multiple ways and combining answers, we can cancel out these biases.
In our “honey vs maple” example, aggregation favors honey in 5 of 8 prompts. Try it out yourself!
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Seems straightforward... until you flip the order. Same question, different answers. But why?
April 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
1/ Setup

Imagine you ask a simple question to ChatGPT:
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