chris

jack of all trades, knower of ball ☘️

[chris @christedtea]

Womp womp

[EverythingKnicks @EverythinKnicks]

When your flight was supposed to leave from LGA at 12:30, then got delayed to 2:30, and now delayed to 4.

Which means not getting to San Antonio in time. Thanks @AmericanAir

A flight full of Knicks fans and you just messed us all up.

[chris @christedtea]

@GreyRaj_

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Punishing homeless children to show the world he is a better Christian than the Pope

[chris @christedtea]

Kalshi and any other “prediction markets” need to die and suffer and lose and quit and die again and cease to exist :D

[chris @christedtea]

Everything is rising in the US, except wages and salaries! #TheTankIsOn #Roaring20sAreBack

[chris @christedtea]

@GreyRaj_ Mikal Bridges clears all of these players, he is worth 5 firsts

[chris @christedtea]

@GreyRaj_ You already have Smart, you CANNOT have Timelord too you greedy guy 😠

[chris @christedtea]

@Reid8444 Vouch, this guy knows ball 👆

[Rochelle Meyer @Rochelle__Meyer]

To sit by the ocean and disassociate.

[chris @christedtea]

Refereeing has been ATROCIOUS so far this year. Fouls only being called one way, ticky-tack technical fouls, awful missed calls, all contributing to a largely unserious product.

[Frank Ammirante @FAmmiranteTFJ]

Living life with rigid rules based on your age is as lame as it gets

[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.

[chris @christedtea]

I must’ve forgotten The Midget’s 3 MVPs!

[BetMGM 🦁 @BetMGM]

The Brunson Burner is on a playoff tear 🔥

[chris @christedtea]

Austin Wells is NOT an MLB-level hitter this is getting to be quite ridiculous

[chris @christedtea]

I rly need to shitpost more

[MASTER STUDENT🤲🏾 @MUSICANDBUILDS]

THE CAPITALISM HUMAN CONSUMER MIND ONLY FINDS THINGS VALUABLE
WHEN POOR PEOPLE CAN’T HAVE IT

I THINK THAT’S A FORM OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND INSECURITY

[Barry (Aaron Judge enjoyer) @YanksBar]

I don’t think yall understand how insane it is that if the Dodger Stadium wall didn’t collapse Aaron Judge would be winning his 5th straight MVP this year

[chris @christedtea]

Aaron Judge is superhuman

[Atlanta Hawks @ATLHawks]

In loving memory of John Sterling, a legendary voice in sports whose career spanned many years, including nearly a decade with the Atlanta Hawks ❤️