Rachel

(Esther 4:14)
Courage, dear heart.- C.S. Lewis
Reformed ✝
Wife 💍
Mother 👶🏼
ladies alt @gentlerrach
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[Rachel @RachelTheGentle]

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

G.K. Chesterton

Pt. 2 🫶🏻

[Rachel @RachelTheGentle]

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

G.K. Chesterton

[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.

[Rachel @RachelTheGentle]

@KendallWhining Equal opportunity household

[Rachel @RachelTheGentle]

Husbands buying a gun so that means I get my handmade silver choker off Etsy right

[Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator @NapoleonBonabot]

General Lee sends his regards. Do not go gentle into that good night

[SWAMPIST @Swampist]

I play this song every time a southern state redraws their map

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

This is a trend on TikTok right now with girls showing everything that their friends who are education majors don’t know

People who think you’re not qualified to homeschool your kids don’t realize how low the bar actually is

[Will Compton @_willcompton]

Oh my GOD this is great A GAP INTEGRITY here

Head on a swivel
Eyes on your target
Same foot, same shoulder
Send them to the gulag

TEACH TAPE!!! https://t.co/09XGrmxaqn

[Joshua Haymes @haymes_joshua]

Head stomps should be treated & tried as attempted murder (25 to life).

The reason it’s not, is that the outcome would disproportionately impact blacks.

By not administering justice in the black community for fear of being called racist we perpetuate the violence & degeneracy that has plagued black communities for decades.

Head stomping would be reduced by 75% or more essentially over night, because A. All the head stompers would be in prison Or B. All the would-be head stompers just saw their homies get 25 to life & so avoid it.

[Rachel @RachelTheGentle]

@littleapostate @Tanyaelisabeth Be prepared for it to be longer than six weeks 🫠 tried a light 30 min workout at 8 weeks and started bleeding again for a while week

[Mother Grundy @MotherGrundy]

https://t.co/3jy0CF6eLp

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

The North Carolina article is up!

[Rep. Mike Collins @RepMikeCollins]

Just figured out how many deportations we may need.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

Your wife should be your personal oracle, sharing all her crazy dreams and impressions and intuitions with you.

Whilst also analysing people using logic, cunning and wisdom.

Always aligned with you, protecting you in her own way.

Cute cunning oracle wife.

[Marlin @nostalgiafkninc]

Do H1B’s identify with this heritage?

[Jon Tweets Sports @jontweetssports]

Roman soldier looking in the empty tomb after Jesus got up outta there

[Rachel @RachelTheGentle]

Husband is starting the mowing season again today 1/3 yards. Here comes my seasonal depression.

[Rachel @RachelTheGentle]

I saw it in relation to labor that read "this is my body broken for you, this is my blood shed for you"

[Mack @kenzietuff]

I thought this post from Instagram was beautiful, so I’m sharing here.

[ReformedDarkAlchemist @RFMDPaladin]

Will pastors encourage financially sound women to marry repentant men drowning in gambling debts from their previous un-sanctified state?

[Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy]

This is way, WAY too much folding. Folding clothes for multiple little kids is a complete waste of time and will eat your entire day. Folded stacks fail the instant they make contact with a child's hands anyway.

Fold the big stuff. Hang the nice stuff. The rest is in God's hands.