
ChatGPT will pick your winning ad. It just picked both.
GPT-4 flips its verdict on identical ads 35% of the time. Sycophancy, non-determinism, and RLHF calibration collapse make LLMs unfit to pick creative winners.
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GPT-4 flips its verdict on identical ads 35% of the time. Sycophancy, non-determinism, and RLHF calibration collapse make LLMs unfit to pick creative winners.

85% aggregate preference agreement with humans (Zheng, NeurIPS 2023). 12% next-action accuracy on real shoppers (Lu, ACL 2026). Peer-reviewed evidence on what to trust.

Motion 2026: 5% of 578,750 Meta ads win. Meta: Reels ads 34.5% cheaper than image. Nielsen: 47% ad recall lift in the first 3 seconds. Here's the pattern.

$1,383 in the US. $80 in India. $1,216 globally. That's the tuition per creative to reach Meta's Learning Phase verdict, and 95% never clear it.