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[That_Guy @IbraRoscoe]

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[That_Guy @IbraRoscoe]

@KingsleyIyamu6 omo

[That_Guy @IbraRoscoe]

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[That_Guy @IbraRoscoe]

with variable transmission coefficients (β) influenced by algorithmic amplification and source credibility gradients.
The force of infection (λ) is modulated by repeated exposure intensity, cognitive susceptibility strata, and pre-existing ideological immunity profiles

[That_Guy @IbraRoscoe]

Propaganda can be conceptualized as a non-biological, socially mediated exposure agent operating within a population-level information ecology, capable of inducing measurable shifts in behavioral incidence rates and attitudinal prevalence distributions.

[That_Guy @IbraRoscoe]

Within a network-based transmission framework, propagation occurs via heterogeneous contact structures (e.g., digital social graphs, mass media nodes, interpersonal interaction chains)

[Random World Ψ @randomworldke]

Can your president process these information ama 🫴 KAZI ni kuuliza unalipa Ngapi?🫩😑

[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.

[That_Guy @IbraRoscoe]

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[Mwangi Kimani @123kimani]

@jackprandelli And another African country that can't do any better but get raped for its natural resources for relative peanuts.

Nothing to see here.

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

🇹🇿Tanzania is about to finalize one of the largest energy deals in African history.

Equinor, ExxonMobil, and Shell are meeting in Dar es Salaam this week for the final round of negotiations on a $42 billion LNG project.

The hard part is already done... Commercial terms agreed and Tax framework settled.
What's left is turning the handshake into legally binding contracts.

💡Tanzania sits on massive offshore natural gas reserves that have been waiting for development for over a decade.

This project would build the infrastructure to liquefy that gas and export it globally creating one of Africa's largest LNG export hubs.

Right now the world is desperately hunting for LNG supply outside the Gulf(Qatar mainly)
Tanzania is about to enter that market with $42 billion of committed infrastructure and 3 of the most credible operators on earth behind it.

Another node on the new energy map and one that bypasses Hormuz entirely.

[That_Guy @IbraRoscoe]

@ajeezayGH Yane..... omo

[veriTY™️ @VERITY_HQ]

1) Women don’t raise children , they don’t have the capacity to .

2) father figure is so important in the life of any child.

3) any man raised by a single mother, is a threat to the society.

Watch this video below and understand 👇

[That_Guy @IbraRoscoe]

@AyTanzania Mhhh strange

[ALLATRA @allatra_org]

Microplastics are already inside us and they are affecting our health. Professor Ragusa explains where the real problem lies and why it's not just about plastic. Are you ready to find out what each of us needs to do to solve this problem?

For more details, follow the link.

[That_Guy @IbraRoscoe]

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[That_Guy @IbraRoscoe]

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[Kate Ardis Oden @OdenKate]

Found a gorgeous Penguin Classics novella at a free library. This author is totally new to me.