Ride-The-Bifrost

MUTUALS INTERACT! 32. My gender took all the money in the divorce. Blog for fandom, spreading awareness on social issues, and the occasional personal thought. ✿

[Ride-The-Bifrost @BifrostRide]

I’m deleting in a week. Anyone who wants to stay in touch can find me here. I can at least cut myself off from the muskrat’s platform.

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

Paper link: https://t.co/9Moht9k4hg

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts.

So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.

What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.

The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.

Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.

The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.

The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.
Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.

Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.

She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

[BeadsAgainstFascism 🇵🇸 @beadagainstfash]

This is horrifying. It will lead to a total degradation of interpersonal effectiveness skills, it will teach people they can't have boundaries, & to expect a lack of boundaries.

That makes people angry and *dangerous*.

(Btw, I verified this is a real study and accurate report)

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

“The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you…”

[Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darren_cullen]

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[Midgart @midgaardian]

Cato's human form fashion choice is stylish grandpa #oc

[Ride-The-Bifrost @BifrostRide]

Me: Maybe I should check out Wisdom Check's server I might have overreacted last time.

Jake:
#pf2e #ttrpg

[Ride-The-Bifrost @BifrostRide]

@_SpyDtroid_ Heya do you have a 🔵 ☁️ yet? I miss your positive vibes.

[MHA is my whole personality now✨ @ArtOnTheFridge]

@dzyunkau3 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ Thank you for this

[Midgart @midgaardian]

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[Ride-The-Bifrost @BifrostRide]

@_SpyDtroid_ Hi do you have a bsky yet? 😭

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[Ride-The-Bifrost @BifrostRide]

So can I get some aid this week? I know I decided not to come back, but I'm working every angle to scrape together resources.

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[redwyrm @redwyrmofficial]

4yo Player: I named my character Dan. He is a chubby goblin warrior with hair in his ears.

Me: You know my name is Dan, right?

4yo: I named him after you because you are the coolest big person.

[LUCY 🏳️‍⚧️💀👑 @regal_bones]

Oh and people have been asking for fountain variations - I got u 😎💕❤️

[Yagi Hikaru 🎨Ⱄⰾⰰⰴⰽⱏⰻⰻ ⰵⰾⱐⱇ🔞😈 @YagiArt]

Young Iorveth at the Belitein Feast

[Ride-The-Bifrost @BifrostRide]

@thomrainiers_ BioWare got homophobic and made the most epic slow burn their company ever could’ve attempted.

[anna !!! :)) 🇵🇸🌸✨🌸🇵🇸 @frogs4girls]

a lot of people quoting this saying “you’re free to leave” like no i don’t think i am actually. i can’t just obtain visas to wherever i want. it costs money to move. leaving is actually fairly difficult.

[Ride-The-Bifrost @BifrostRide]

@Andrastesboobs Don’t forget that mages are expected to serve in battles when called upon, if I remember correctly. It wouldn’t be out there for most of them to learn combat magic and maybe even see a few battles.

[.𖥔 ݁ ˖ Najm 🔻 @Andrastesboobs]

Whenever I think about dao I always come back to the mage origin.. Mages aren’t soldiers, they’re not a Tabris who grew up fighting, a Mahariel who was born a hunter or a Cousland trained with a blade.. They’ve never held a weapon, never seen a battlefield..