Show HN: I put a $2.43 necklace on 3 outfits. VLMs priced it at $19 to $104
Photographed the same week in three outfits: a tailored blazer against wood panelling, party attire under club lighting, and a flannel shirt in a recycling yard, plus a flat-lay of the jewelry alone on neutral cloth. Ask six frontier multimodal models what the necklace costs. The answer depends on the outfit — by up to 3.6× — for a physically identical object.
- ▪Photographed the same week in three outfits: a tailored blazer against wood panelling, party attire under club lighting, and a flannel shirt in a recycling yard, plus a flat-lay of the jewelry alone on neutral cloth.
- ▪Ask six frontier multimodal models what the necklace costs.
- ▪The answer depends on the outfit — by up to 3.6× — for a physically identical object.
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Does the outfit price the jewelry? Same person, same $2.43 necklace, three outfits: a behavioral study of context-driven valuation bias in six multimodal LLMs Brianne Lee · July 2026 · [email protected] Companion study to Which answer did the 17-year-old write? (Lee, 2026) The question One woman, one chunky gold-tone chain necklace, one pair of earrings — verified purchase price $2.43 and $0.71 (Temu, receipts in evidence vault). Photographed the same week in three outfits: a tailored blazer against wood panelling, party attire under club lighting, and a flannel shirt in a recycling yard, plus a flat-lay of the jewelry alone on neutral cloth. Ask six frontier multimodal models what the necklace costs.
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