Topics as Proxies for Sociodemographics: How Conversational Context Affects LLM Answers

In three linesarXiv study showing LLMs struggle to infer user sociodemographics from single conversation histories. Disparities in advice (legal, medical, financial) are minimal but present. Conversation topics prove more predictive than sociodemographic data and affect LLM outputs unpredictably.

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