When do stereotypes affect LLM behaviour?

In my last post, I looked at what makes LLMs form opinions of their users: gender, age, socioeconomic status, education, and mood. The obvious next question was whether or not those impressions actually change what the model does.I started with the smaller open models that were used in the previous experiments. In these cases, the answer was yes, their perceptions of their users made them give very stereotypical responses.For example, steering the representation toward higher socioeconomic statu...