lex of the air ashari 🍃

🌻 | 🇵🇷 29 years old | JWU BS '16 - MS '18 | LES born & raised | dog mom 🐕‍🦺🖤

[lex of the air ashari 🍃 @_lexg__]

question for the people who stand in front of the open doors on a packed train & don’t move for people coming on & off…how many times were you dropped on your head?

[the 1975 @velliikudii]

I've never seen him without a suit, he's like barney stinson

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

LL Cool J has 24 hours to respond

[theo! ⋆˚࿔ @theotricality]

i cannot stress how incredible it is that times square has been all cleaned up by 8 am. those mfs lit a fucking bus on fire on42nd street. the knicks work hard but nyc sanitation works harder.

[cheyenne @idkcheyenne13]

MY FAVORITE BASKETBALL TEAM OF THE LAST TWO WEEKS JUST WON LETS FUCKING GO KNICKS

[WALKER🪂 @maxl1am]

the craziest thing about being an adult is that you could go through the most traumatic night of your life and you'll just have to go to work the next day

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

What kind of shitty country would deny student loan forgiveness but give January 6th rioters forgiveness and pay them $1.8 billion?

[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.

[bevin @Kevchesterr]

not really complaining yet but outside feels like we in 14th st union sq station

[Raksha @caraksha103]

Is it just me, or does anyone else need the first hour of work to be completely quiet. no meetings, no coworkers talking, just peace?

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

The University of Chicago will guarantee free tuition for students with family incomes below $250,000 starting in Fall 2027.

Students with family incomes below $125,000 will also receive free housing and meals.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

Mamdani closed a $12B deficit in 132 days, fixed 100K+ potholes, secured millions for gig workers, fined corrupt landlords millions, raised snow workers to $30/hr, and violent crime hit historic lows.
THIS IS WHAT A LEADER DOES!!

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 NEW: Zohran Mamdani to permanently fund NYC libraries and parks.

Libraries will no longer have to plead for funding each year.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

People who litter utterly confuse me. Not in a complicated way, but I am just like… how? How do you look at a beautiful field, a forest, a beach, nature in general, and think “yeah, this is where my empty packet belongs?” You’re a grown person… how?

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

I suck at being in a groupchat. As soon as the chat start making too much noise, I mute it.

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Iranian hackers are threatening to hack the U.S. credit bureaus. They are threatening to erase every American’s debts, and give everyone an 800 credit rating. Let me respond be saying I double did dare you to do it.

[jezz @JezziiB]

If you are a man and are against abortion, here are some things you can do:
• Get a vasectomy.
• Shut the Fck up.

[ً @prinkasusa]

the fact that women could have their nudes leaked and their whole career could potentially be destroyed but men could have a whole ass R@PE ALLEGATION but still be the president of the US... i never wanna hear y'all argue that gender inequality doesn't exist

[Doctor @DipshikhaGhosh]

Do lads forget they have a mother when you abuse, restrict, molest, harass, rape, murder women every day?

[💫𝓓𝓮𝓶𝓸💫🪐 @Demo4fhs]

"Oh for fuck's sake what now" - me when asked to do the job I was hired to do