Emmanuel Oucor

Christian | Infosec & Digital Forensics Guy | CEO XyberEdge Technologies Ltd | Co-Founder @SmartMotherUG | @isocUG Fellow | #GGMU

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Never Alone are the least of His Children. Have Faith in God, Have Faith in God!

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@andykristian @KarisMedical Walked with us through our baby girls first admission.. He is a compassionate and professional guy. We'll be following him 😄

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@DrMichER @claudeai subscription. The compute and think power I need right now, only Claude Opus 4.8 can deal.

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@drtalieybita Contentment, or as Morgan Housel puts it; getting the goalpost to stop moving! When expectations and lifestyle continuously rise with income, achievement becomes a moving target destroying long term happiness.

[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.

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Arsenal 1:1 Burnley

[Beewol @beewol]

Arsenal vs Burnley.

Predictions?

[Emmanuel Oucor @iameriatu]

😂😂😂

[Malume Malusi @UncleCul]

Anything lower than where I am and UNICEF might have to step in 😩😭

[Abuja President ⚖️ @AbujaPresident]

Do not rush out of the slippery bathroom to pick your calls. Cultivate the habit of calling back when you are done instead. Airtime is far cheaper than brain surgery.

[Mᴜʏɪᴡᴀ @Mussprince_seal]

If you know anyone that works at DSTV please tell them to bring their Laptops, cords & flash so that they can collect new movies. 😔

[WiOke @wokaje]

Shadow AI: The Silent Data Leak in your Organization. — AI tools are quickly becoming the “secret assistants” employees rely on to work smarter and faster. But beneath this productivity boost lies a growing and often invisible threat. https://t.co/uacNv820tl @iameriatu

[Emmanuel Oucor @iameriatu]

Two factor authentication is available and free for most apps now, please turn it on.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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No financial institution should have this excuse. If a bank can't assure clients of their Cybersecurity and technology risk management its not ready to manage people's money!

[Edris Kiggundu @ekiggundu]

In 2021, Shs 69m vanished from two accounts in DTB held by Shengjian, a Chinese investor. He complained to the bank but was told that the transactions were initiated using his phone. Police faulted DTB's weak IT systems. He is stuck! @BbegMedia
https://t.co/tKMdsV4oQg

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@URSBHQ your servers need some serious load balancing. Services are unavailable 99% of the time.
My DM is Open.

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No matter how much or hard you pray, you can never take work out of the equation. Adam literally had everything he needed in Eden. In Genesis 2:15, God charged him to "Dress and Keep" the garden. He had to work!

[GT Atas @GodstimeAtas]

No matter how much you fast and pray as a Christian in Africa, an atheist in Canada would always have a better quality of life than you.

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@Psymore1 @KakandeAlex @JYawe11 @SbgSecuritiesug @SbgSecuritiesug something to think about. This is coming up in so many discussions.

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Deep!

[GehGeh @official_Gegeh]

Once you turn 30, ask yourself these brutally honest 5 questions.

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Can be brute forced in milliseconds! Completely zero entropy here.

[Emmanuel Oucor @iameriatu]

@thisrodneyguy @weskambale Good catch, but 192.168.1.100?? I can bet the login credentials to their gateway device are admin/admin.. Also that portal is totally exposed. It could have been on a segmented network. There's just a lot of clumsiness here

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Word!

I can't recall thr number of times I cited Zhang, Y., et al (2020). The Impact of AI and Blockchain on Accounting.

[Ugochukwu Madu @UgochukwuCFR]

“Zhang et al.” have to be the most cited authors alive.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Musk must urgently deal with Grok AI's ability to generate sexualised images, government warns

https://t.co/gK08x5AF1F

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

BREAKING: Man Utd have reached a verbal agreement with Ruben Amorim to ruin his promising career in under 3 years.