Je m’appelle Satie 🇵🇸

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

KEEP BULLYING TECH COMPANIES INTO REMOVING USELESS AND INVASIVE AI FEATURES!!!!!!!!

[Doktor Ross Sewage MD @sewage666]

friendly reminder: they never paid the lady who snitched on luigi and she was fired from her job

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

In my lifetime, China lifted 850 million people out of poverty, while the US created one trillionaire. It is clear as day that socialism is the key to our future.

[bug girl @buggirl]

in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas

[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.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

This might sound pessimistic, but I’ve always wondered why no billionaire has single-handedly funded the halting or reversal of climate change purely for the narcissistic thrill of being able to say they literally saved humanity.

[Matt the anarchist 🏴 Ⓐ @tigerfoos]

I made a zine about why AI sucks I thought people might enjoy looking at it

[Fergenstein @BiigRED_95]

How do you read things like this and not want them GONE

[🐾 Pepper R. Byte 🐈‍⬛ @pepperonibyte]

this is very good for your literacy btw
don't be ashamed to frequently google words you don't know, it's better to learn now instead of giving up
especially in an age where literacy rates are at an all time low

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

I have NEVER understood the cognitive dissonance between white people en masse in America celebrating Cinco de Mayo while simultaneously cheering on the murders and state kidnappings of Latino people. It's chilling to me. Always has been.

[susa @prinkasusa]

“Women talk too much.”

Research shows men tend to interrupt women more in mixed conversations... especially in professional settings.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Most people do not realize just how much they should hate the rich.

Since 2008 the richest 1% have Quadrupled their wealth.

While the other 99% have stayed the same or gotten poorer.

YOU should be twice as rich as in 2008, but they have taken it ALL.

[usamah andrabi @usamahandrabi]

Not enough people are talking about that at Trump's directive, TN Republicans are starting a special session today to gerrymander the state's only Black majority district — Memphis — out of existence.

#TN09 was on track to elect @Justinjpearson in August

[A. Marmot 🌱Underground🌱 @_Anunnery]

an Amazon worker died last month on the warehouse floor and management told everyone to keep working and not attempt aid.

Right here in Troutdale

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

we don't want one hour shipping, we want the workers to have one hour for lunch instead

[Praise @tufpraise]

Everyone felt sad for the penguin walking alone and the monkey rejected by his mother. But this video is far more heartbreaking, yet it didn’t receive the same attention.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Don’t ever forget: the ONLY difference between you and the people of Gaza is geographic luck. Nothing else.

[Comrade Izzy ☭🦍🟥⬛️🟩 @ComradeIzzy]

Make more edits like this so Americans can understand the concept of wage theft.

[the hotter kenny omega @SamGreszes]

You don't hear about this bc it is specifically related to adding protected bike lanes and its illegal in the usa to imply that infringing on people's god given right to 8-lane residential roads might be necessary for traffic safety