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[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

that was his home💔

[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…”

[apartadomex @ApartadoMex]

🚨 ¡XOCHIMILCO AGONIZA! DENUNCIAN AGUAS CONTAMINADAS EN EL SANTUARIO DEL AJOLOTE
Lo que ves en este video no es solo agua sucia, es la sentencia de muerte para el ajolote mexicano. El proyecto "Santuario Ajolote" ha alzado la voz para mostrar cómo las aguas jabonosas y los residuos domésticos se vierten directamente en los canales de Xochimilco. Mientras el mundo admira a nuestra especie más emblemática en billetes y museos, su hogar real se ha convertido en un depósito de drenaje.
La opacidad en la gestión del agua en la Ciudad de México es alarmante. A pesar de los censos que confirman el colapso de la población de ajolotes —pasando de 6,000 a solo 36 ejemplares por kilómetro cuadrado en pocos años—, las descargas ilegales y la falta de plantas de tratamiento eficientes continúan. Xochimilco no es solo una zona de fiesta en trajinera; es un ecosistema crítico que estamos perdiendo por pura negligencia institucional.

[The Kaikage @Kairito10]

Fucking never mind

[🇩🇲 Chelsea, Biologist/Magical Girl/Frogletito 🦎 @ChelseaHerps]

There’s a Hawaiian org I follow on Instagram I can’t remember the name right now. But they keep trying to stop the feral cats in their area, get them into shelters and save the birds but settlers keep fighting to be able to feed feral cats. They have recordings of these well fed

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

Everyone praises him but no one in power listens to his message.
The natural world is dying faster than ever before. 🍂

[🩷 TORB Straight Outta TF: One Cupsleeve Event 🩵 @littlemisstfc]

This is also a blatant display of colonial violence due to how this fucker said that he has the money to do whatever he wants as a tourist.

The tourism industry in Hawaii is a disease that allow these colonizers to feel entitled in brutalizing these lands and their inhabitants.

[Blokees.US @BlokeesUS]

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[『ゴジラ-0.0』【公式】 @g_minus_zero]

『ゴジラ-0.0』
ファーストティザー映像解禁

『ゴジラ-1.0』の死闘から２年後の世界を描く、新たな絶望の到達点。

そして、邦画初となる「Filmed For IMAX®」作品として制作されます。

11月3日(火・祝)、ゴジラの日に映画館でお会いしましょう。

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[Anime Updates @animeupdates]

'AKANE-BANASHI' Anime Episode 1 has surpassed 100,000 views combined on the global YouTube channel!

Views by language:
English - 51k
Spanish - 44k
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[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

🚨 The emperor penguin is now officially endangered.

Climate change is shrinking the sea ice they depend on to breed, and when it breaks too early, chicks drown before they even have a chance. Some colonies are collapsing completely.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Having existed for millions of years on Earth
Trump hands them a death sentence to eliminate them forever on this Earth and all to boost the profits of his fossil fuel billionaire buddies

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

In Hawai‘i during Thanksgiving Weekend 2021, the US Navy exposed 93,000 people to jet fuel-contaminated water - a majority of them Military families. Command lied to their own people until they posted pics of babies covered in rashes and videos lighting their tap water on fire.

[Michelle @Michell33650674]

The 25th Amendment only allows us to remove Trump! Article II, Section 4 allows us to remove the President, Vice President, and all in their administration when the President has committed treason, bribery, and/or other high crimes and misdemeanors! THEY MUST ALL GO!