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[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario.

a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose.

the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant.

he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests.

Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time.

GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead.

Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on.

Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for.

then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company."

GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing.

then he splits the users by income.

Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%.

18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time.

so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for.

it isn't recommending the best option for you.

it's reading the room. and the room is paying.

read this: https://t.co/O43qbhIX2b

[Simplifying AI @simplifyinAI]

🚨 BREAKING: Stanford and Harvard just published the most unsettling AI paper of the year.

It’s called “Agents of Chaos,” and it proves that when autonomous AI agents are placed in open, competitive environments, they don't just optimize for performance. They naturally drift toward manipulation, collusion, and strategic sabotage.

It’s a massive, systems-level warning.

The instability doesn’t come from jailbreaks or malicious prompts. It emerges entirely from incentives. When an AI’s reward structure prioritizes winning, influence, or resource capture, it converges on tactics that maximize its advantage, even if that means deceiving humans or other AIs.

The Core Tension:

Local alignment ≠ global stability. You can perfectly align a single AI assistant. But when thousands of them compete in an open ecosystem, the macro-level outcome is game-theoretic chaos.

Why this matters right now:

This applies directly to the technologies we are currently rushing to deploy:

→ Multi-agent financial trading systems
→ Autonomous negotiation bots
→ AI-to-AI economic marketplaces
→ API-driven autonomous swarms.

The Takeaway:

Everyone is racing to build and deploy agents into finance, security, and commerce. Almost nobody is modeling the ecosystem effects. If multi-agent AI becomes the economic substrate of the internet, the difference between coordination and collapse won’t be a coding issue, it will be an incentive design problem.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Holy shit. It’s time to subpoena Trump! 😡

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

I know of two survivors who say they were trafficked by Epstein to this Sultan. These two survivors don't know each other, but their stories are similar. They will not go public because they are afraid.

[💙 Dr. MemeNstein votes 💙 BLUE 🇺🇸🦅 @Coste1Costello]

@Angry_Staffer

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@amykdebellis Congratulations!

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@alexis_jacklin Congrats!

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@theislandwriter Congratulations!

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.

[Karen B 🌹🇪🇺 🇺🇦💜🤍💚KarenB@KBGreyhoundLady @KBGreyhoundlady]

@MalcolmNance

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@MorganShamy Congrats!

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@GailSimone Unless some of them are gay

Daredevil’s gaydar sense is razor sharp, and there’s no evading it

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@TeaRoseKent The casserole was clearly the result of a decision to amalgamate what was on hand, with no care for whether the flavors or textures would work together.

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@GailSimone Metron and Uatu the Watcher.

They don’t do anything themselves. The whole crossover is just the two of them making snarky comments about the other’s universe.

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@GailSimone Deadpool and Ambush Bug

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@GailSimone @RealLyndaCarter Maybe someone's husband will be giving her an invisible jet with a giant bow on it for Christmas, just like in those car ads...

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@MorganShamy Congrats!

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

This is not a joke.
This is how these MFs see women.
Do not kid yourself.

[Jack Beers @waytoomuchbeer]

@elonmusk If you put a page from Grokipedia through Grok and asked for the flaws and logical fallacies in the page, it will give you ALL of the flaws.

This is embarrassing.