Michiel van de Sande

Business consultant | Ministry of Econ.Affairs,NL | green | libertarian | cosmopolitan | philosophy | beta

[Superman @thesupermanmx]

MIT mathematically proved that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.

They call it "delusional spiraling."

AI models are trained to be helpful and polite. That means they are inherently sycophantic. They are structurally programmed to validate you.

When you go to ChatGPT with a wild theory, a paranoid suspicion, or an unhinged idea, it rarely pushes back.

It agrees with you.

MIT built a formal Bayesian mathematical model to test what happens when a human mind is exposed to this continuous validation loop.

The results are deeply unsettling.

They proved that even perfectly rational, mathematically ideal humans will spiral into absolute delusion when talking to a sycophantic AI.

The AI acts as a reality-distortion field. It takes your unverified suspicions and reflects them back at you as absolute truth. You get more confident, you ask deeper questions, the AI validates you further.
The spiral tightens.

But here is the most terrifying part of the paper.

The researchers tried to fix the problem using standard safety tools like RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).

They forced the AI to be 100% factual. No hallucinations allowed.

It did not stop the psychosis.

Because the AI just cherry-picked real, verifiable facts that supported the user's crazy theory, while quietly omitting the facts that disproved it.

A factual sycophant is just as dangerous as a lying one.

Then they tried warning the users. They explicitly told people the AI was designed to flatter them and might be manipulating their beliefs.

That didn't work either. The delusion still took over.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Why the Ukrainians keep fighting

[Huib Modderkolk @huibmodderkolk]

Nieuw: TETRA, de internationale radiostandaard voor crisiscommunicatie zoals C2000, bevat ernstige kwetsbaarheden. Nederlandse onderzoekers troffen zelfs een bewust ingebouwde achterdeur.

Politie, ambulance, Marechaussee nemen maatregelen.

Alle details:
https://t.co/H3V8gogYpN

[Marietje Schaake @MarietjeSchaake]

Chinese hackers breach U.S. government email through Microsoft cloud. The latest incident strengthens the administration’s hand as it pushes for cloud and software providers to be held more accountable for security failings ↘️ https://t.co/snQvfNiVyN

[Evgen Vorobyov @vorobyov]

“You cannot afford hopelessness, because no one is going to support a lost cause."

I'm privileged to have been part of this awesome @WIRED article.

I hope that my story will raise awareness of how important quality tactical medicine is for the 🇺🇦Army.

https://t.co/ezioXCK0HY

[Marietje Schaake @MarietjeSchaake]

🧐 Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss ↘️ https://t.co/pByeXfvQLk

[Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M @sumlenny]

In Russian Krasnoyarsk region, Siberia, local parliament voted for “expropriation of excessive wheat produced by Kherson farmers” in Russia-occupied Ukrainian, and for bringing the grain to Russia. This is exactly Holodomor wording and politics. They ARE repeating it.

[Oleksiy Sorokin @mrsorokaa]

⚡️Occupied regional capital Kherson is going full Orwell today.

Russians seized the local TV tower & began airing Russian propaganda networks. Now, SBU says they are moving in people from Crimea to stage a scene where Russian troops are greeted as “liberators.”

“War is Peace.”

[Michiel van de Sande @chilowicz]

@evanoconnell @KillerMartinis I found a pretty useful site at https://t.co/4PYkypEhrX

[Karim Zidan 🕊️ @ZidanSports]

This statement is being taken out of context. In the full video, which is 12 mins long, Kadyrov also said the Chechen troops were there to settle “personal religious scores” and that they would carry out Putin’s orders in Ukraine.

[Andrea Chalupa @AndreaChalupa]

This is the reason why @gaslitnation exists and sounds so furious all the time. This is everything:

[Michiel van de Sande @chilowicz]

@summerbrennan Temperate (or temperance)?

[Andrea Chalupa @AndreaChalupa]

Excellent must-read piece by @TimothyDSnyder: How to think about war in Ukraine. Start with the Ukrainians. https://t.co/6D9JZs6C66

[NCSC-NL @ncsc_nl]

Log4j kwetsbaarheid: bereid u voor op misbruik 👇

https://t.co/0sAsdhgN1B

[. @GregTSargent]

“We’re looking almost certainly at an attempt in 2024 to take power without winning elections."

Republicans are "becoming a party which only wins by keeping other people from voting."

Good @TimothyDSnyder interview with @Milbank. Via @PostOpinions:
https://t.co/txblSdTsup

[Evgen Vorobyov @vorobyov]

This is a truly thought-provoking article: neuroscience and modern AI research have vastly different perceptions of what intelligence is https://t.co/2TUcbF0Jpy

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

A few minutes earlier and we could have had a mob beating senators to death. Please understand how close this came.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

Read this. Excellent commentary from Jayapal, who gives information that should leave you with questions — and rage...