Humean Being @HumeanStew - Twitter Profile

🔥The greatest ever created?🔥 Don’t take my word for it, let me know in the comments. This is top tier quality. And the way that they used each character in the explanation was perfect.

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3 months ago

@TimHannan @CNN Vote with your money. Stop watching, don’t watch clips on twitter, block their accounts.

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4 months ago

@omgsidewalks Agnus

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mass ave curmudgeon @mass_ave

4 months ago

If this ain’t it in a nutshell

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5 months ago

@YourAnonNews He not just ugly, he’s fucking ugly.

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5 months ago

@7why__ydm I wrote an app for my watch to control my TV volume via the dial because I was tired of clicking buttons.

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Ryan Hart

@thisdudelikesAI

5 months ago

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.

thisdudelikesAI's tweet photo. 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.

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Not Your Average Liberal

@NotAvgLiberal

6 months ago

A message for all you people leaving MAGA - Fuck You. It wasn’t the “Grab ‘em by the pussy”, It wasn’t the mocking of a disabled person, It wasn’t the thousands of lies, It wasn’t the $130,000. 00 Porn Star Payout. It wasn’t the rest of the infidelity, It wasn’t the 34 felony convictions, It wasn’t the 400 million dollar jet from Qatar, It wasn’t the withholding of federal funds to Blue States devastated by wild fires, hurricanes and tornadoes. It wasn’t the Americans killed and deported, It wasn’t the illegal wars started without Congressional approval. It wasn’t the 160 school girls he murdered with a Tomahawk Missile. It wasn’t the Children He Raped. It was a fucking AI picture that drove you over the edge. I will never forgive you. I will never forget who you are. You are, and always will be a Trump supporter. Read the list again. You Are Shit.

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6 months ago

@MattP1Tommy The best thing about the regs is that they are having to come to grips with the fact that their eco agenda is complete horseshit and it makes for garbage racing. The fans want more simple cars that reward driver skill!

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Gianl1974

@Gianl1974

7 months ago

“Everyone treats him like he's three years old. He needs a lot of attention. He needs immediate gratification. He needs constant praise for nothing. He takes nap time. They order him McDonald's. He gets ice cream after dinner every night. He loves to use a sharpie when he's not supposed to. He wants to hear the same two songs over and over again. And he wears diapers. He's three years old!” ~ Jimmy Kimmel on the current president 😂