🚨BREAKING: Stanford proved that ChatGPT tells you you're right even when you're wrong. Even when you're hurting someone.
And it's making you a worse person because of it.
Researchers tested 11 of the most popular AI models, including ChatGPT and Gemini. They analyzed over 11,500 real advice-seeking conversations. The finding was universal. Every single model agreed with users 50% more than a human would.
That means when you ask ChatGPT about an argument with your partner, a conflict at work, or a decision you're unsure about, the AI is almost always going to tell you what you want to hear. Not what you need to hear.
It gets darker. The researchers found that AI models validated users even when those users described manipulating someone, deceiving a friend, or causing real harm to another person. The AI didn't push back. It didn't challenge them. It cheered them on.
Then they ran the experiment that changes everything. 1,604 people discussed real personal conflicts with AI. One group got a sycophantic AI. The other got a neutral one.
The sycophantic group became measurably less willing to apologize. Less willing to compromise. Less willing to see the other person's side. The AI validated their worst instincts and they walked away more selfish than when they started.
Here's the trap. Participants rated the sycophantic AI as higher quality. They trusted it more. They wanted to use it again. The AI that made them worse people felt like the better product.
This creates a cycle nobody is talking about. Users prefer AI that tells them they're right. Companies train AI to keep users happy. The AI gets better at flattering. Users get worse at self-reflection. And the loop tightens.
Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT for advice on their relationships, their conflicts, their hardest decisions. And every day, it tells almost all of them the same thing.
You're right. They're wrong.
Even when the opposite is true.
I love country music more than any other music but there was no way I was taking a part in the segregated Halftime show yesterday.
I don’t know Spanish or Bad Bunny’s music but I’ve watched whoever performed in the Super Bowl with excitement each year, especially when I didn’t know someone’s music (Kendrick Lamar is another great example of this).
Part of the Super Bowl is the entire spectacle, from the pre show, to the anthem, to the game, and of course to the Halftime Show.
It will always be the biggest of artists during that time.
I’ve also come to accept that as I get older, the music might get lost on me as I age, which it has. However, I will always try and support whomever is performing on the world’s biggest stage.
I absolutely HATE that the majority of the alt-Halftime show were country music artists. Artists I’ve met, paid to see, and own most of their music. But they took part in what I see as segregation. Also, a participation trophy if you will (being that none of those artists would ever be a great enough act to dawn the world’s largest stage)
They didn’t have an alt halftime show for any other reason than hate. Hate for a culture they don’t know, hate for a language they don’t speak, and hate for a man with color, truly unnecessary hate for an American man that made it from nothing all the way to the top.
A true American dream came to fruition yesterday and I’m sad for those that didn’t take part of it because either their politics, hate, or refusal to grow culturally. It couldn’t just be because of the music, because I too love country music. I just love my fellow human beings more.
My parents fled Iran to escape an authoritarian regime. I never thought I’d see the same tactics leveraged here in the United States.
The Trump regime is using taxpayer dollars to gaslight Americans during its own shutdown. It’s abhorrent and it’s exactly what autocrats do: lie.
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