Isaac the Rat Boi

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[Isaac the Rat Boi @ISSIC3]

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[Sally Moore @SallyMo70506324]

Thank you to @ainiladra for producing this database https://t.co/ISWOufPr0J which lists over 400 family fundraisers in Gaza. Over the next few days I will highlight some of the campaigns with the fewest donations with an appeal for matched donations. Hope you will participate.

[Longswordwife @Longswordwife]

Christianity is so funny bc any religion that takes itself seriously would find it insulting to put the Word of God on a piece of cardboard meant to be covered in slop and thrown in the trash

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

It's hilarious when companies try to make it seem unethical to only be at work for the money. What other reason would I be here???

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i hope the next global trend will be empathy and critical thinking.

[oxyzen @oxyzen]

this is what happens when “everyone gets a puppy” finally beats “diarrhea forever”

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Just kind of left speechless at an invading army whining to the United Nations that the people they are invading — and killing their civilians by the thousands — are fighting back. This is a mystifying level of lack of self awareness

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

The weird thing about late-diagnosed ADHD is realizing you've been using panic as your main source of motivation for most of your life.

[george watsky @gwatsky]

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[george watsky @gwatsky]

❤️ x Infinity
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[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

i cannot think of a more perfectly distilled example of why so many survivors of sexual assault don’t come forward

[george watsky @gwatsky]

Surprise x Infinity ❤️

[Tad Ghostal @poe_collector]

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

[Hampton Institute @HamptonThink]

The US govnt does not serve the American people. This includes the military. There are no freedoms being fought for or protected. We're all prey in an extremely predatory society. The US military loots other countries for the same reason our govnt loots us: to enrich capitalists.

[sachston era @dykeseyah]

AI is like one of the worst things that has ever happened to humanity and I’m not kidding

[Charles @wotancore]

They sell LED bulbs in the colour tone on the left. I sent emails and made phone calls to people in my local council until they changed the bulbs on my street. You can do the same.

[Barrington Grant Jr @barringtonjr]

So many ppl seem to legitimately believe that disobeying a police officer’s orders is a justifiable reason for them to kill you.

[Talia🦋 @Nieshalations]

I mean ppl beat kids for not following orders so it almost like it’s really embedded in the system

[Zoya🕊️ @Zoya_ki_batein]

“I mean, I get it. I don’t want to be alone in the woods with a man either.”

[foxy marxist ☭🔻 @FoxyMarxist]

people mentioning its segregation are correct but also need to mention that forcing trans students to go outside in outdoor toilets gives a straight pathway to getting raped and murdered by people who associate everyone who goes in there with being trans

[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.

[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…”