Jasmin

she/her | sometimes pick up a camera, degree in tv production, current maker of drinks | Insta: @jas_calv

[aurora ⁸¹ 🥐🐝 #P1ASTRI @sweetpiastris]

I FUCKING TOLD YOUUU I TOLD YOU ALL EVERY TONGUE THAT RISES AGAINST OSCAR PIASTRI WILL FALL

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

It’s not just a rainbow, it’s a symbol of pride, hope and security. Happy pride🏳️‍🌈

[Crescendo @msnofficial_on]

When the AI datastealer 3000+ I installed on my PC stole my data 😱😱😱

[cj 💫 @sillybutch]

I am always going to be on the side of the British when it comes to this heat discourse bc a) it’s indicative of something bigger (climate change) b) I’ve worked in tons of old buildings with no ac and it’s hell and c) most importantly, have we never heard of simply having

[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.

[osama @0ba0sama]

Wall-E came out in 2008 and y’all still littering

[Dyylas @DylanDyylas]

a lot harder to brainwash people when everyone has access to all the footage and news of you slaughtering innocent children like animals you rotten fuck

[Anna’s Top Stanna @LinguistReborn]

To be clear, this isn’t a story of Alec Guinness being homophobic. Alec Guinness was bisexual and was arrested for cruising when he was younger. This is a very sad story of how queer people had to hide themselves and assimilate into a deeply homophobic industry.

[Merissa Hansen @merissahansen17]

This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. The video below was recorded at midnight, and the data center is situated next to 100s of residential homes.

[Sarah 📸 @swrightCO]

destroying ecosystems because you’re too lazy to make your own grocery list or can’t draw

[a⁸¹ 🐝🌸 | FAN ACCOUNT @oscarsspiastree]

"wow! turns out when we start these things, we're pretty good!"

PODIUM AT SUZUKA BABYYYY

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Supercut of Matt Berry announcing stuff during the #Oscars lol

[aj @adfreebrowsing]

american and european piastri fans waking up now to see PIA greyed out already

[affe @alfosn]

Deeply fascinated by this distinctively British genre of photography

[mason @racepiastri]

enjoying my last few days as a piastri fan before he gets villainised globally on netflix

[sports tweeter Matthias 🇨🇴🇲🇽🇪🇨🇧🇷 @sportswaatcher]

Dinosaur documentary series narrated by Morgan Freeman

[Jimmy King @Jimmyking35]

A VIDEO FROM THE DRIVERS POV AT THIS EXACT MOMENT HAS BEEN SENT TO ME NO WAY😭😭😭

[alex 🐝🇦🇺 @oscgoat]

what 3 years at mclaren racing does to the human mind