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Audit Finds Persona Prompts Bias Vision-Language Model Affordance Reports
A revised arXiv paper re-examines an earlier seven-prompt study on how vision-language models describe objects and their possible uses under different persona prompts. The authors argue that low overlap between responses alone does not prove an affordance effect, so they add matched-question controls to test whether the differences hold up. The work is a methodological audit aimed at tightening how such prompt-sensitivity claims are evaluated.