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NSFW. 18+. 30s. This account creates works of fiction and fantasy only. DMs open for now.

[dirtyknots 🔞 @dirtyknots]

Emerging from my deep hidey hole to let y'all know that because of the Twitter weirdness, I have disconnected my Curious Cat so replies can't get posted here, but I'm answering questions and taking prompts still over there:

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[dirtyknots 🔞 @dirtyknots]

@TeenieWolf No worries, I totally get being unsure! Just definitely always treat anything like that as suspect.

[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.

[senshion 🎃 🔞 @senshionart]

Every time I've called, they made it clear they've been getting a lot of calls

If you support NSFW art or content in general, share this, make calls, let them know how you feel

Ask them to give you a Case Number you can follow up on as well, it helps!

[dirtyknots 🔞 @dirtyknots]

@clitstripe I understand that feeling so much, I'm sorry friend. I hope one day you can find your way back to it one day and it'll bring you joy again instead of misery *hugs*

[pokey pup @Whatapityonyou]

Everyone asking “how is this legal?” It’s not!! But unfortunately we’ve set the precedent that rich people are above the law so here we are.

[An Out of Print Hell Girl DVD On a Shelf @flowerdrums]

Dylan O'Brien Oscar nominee incoming

[‏ً @celebrityskin]

Dylan O'brien

[bider-man @cvmspidey]

DYLAN O’BRIEN GOT STROKES ???? https://t.co/hG14l4XuNn

[dylan o'brien archive @archivdob]

DYLAN O'BRIEENN

[dirtyknots 🔞 @dirtyknots]

@clitstripe We all get blinded in relationships sometimes. I'm glad you're free if it though.

[dirtyknots 🔞 @dirtyknots]

@clitstripe He really and truly does.

[dirtyknots 🔞 @dirtyknots]

@clitstripe He needs his 🍆 bit off by a dog actually.

[dirtyknots 🔞 @dirtyknots]

@clitstripe 😂😂😂 Jordyn

[dirtyknots 🔞 @dirtyknots]

@clitstripe That's how it is for me sadly. But maybe it's just a matter of having the time and the right tutorials. Idk.

[dirtyknots 🔞 @dirtyknots]

@clitstripe You'll never know until you try. There's tons of art tutorials online so you should give it a shot.

[dirtyknots 🔞 @dirtyknots]

@clitstripe Well that's fucked and shitty -_- I swear to God all corporations are the same.

[dirtyknots 🔞 @dirtyknots]

@clitstripe They should do the math and add it in -_-

[dirtyknots 🔞 @dirtyknots]

@clitstripe I hope very much that they at least pay you guys out what you're owed. They have time to do a final payout on Saturday -_-

[dirtyknots 🔞 @dirtyknots]

@clitstripe They did say they weren't deleting data just stopping it from functioning here but they'd be able to restore it quickly if the bank was reversed.