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Evolving Graphic Designer...sometimes animator

[k•bby @kobby_dru]

He was just going to get some milk

[PRINCE SHIVURI @SibuyiPrince]

Found this tortoise walking then decided to give it a lift to the nearest town .

[🎀 buttercup @mamiikeeyy]

My daughter daycare called my phone and said we had a Code Red and all the kids were scared but your daughter... So I asked " ight so what's the problem ? " she gonna say it's not a problem but when we asked your daughter why she wasn't scared she told us " nothing gonna happen too us... Cuz my DADDY gonna kill everybody if i don't make it home “🥴🤣 😈

[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.

[k•bby @kobby_dru]

@alx_africa @alxghana when is the Cloud Computing track coming back?👀 Ready to enroll the moment it drops.

[k•bby @kobby_dru]

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[QUEEN👑 @Ohemaa_mhe]

@YangoGhana this is how you treat your customers? Boi !

[k•bby @kobby_dru]

@YangoGhana

[QUEEN👑 @Ohemaa_mhe]

It’s been one hour but your customer service has been nothing but pathetic! @YangoGhana @gyaigyimii

[QUEEN👑 @Ohemaa_mhe]

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[SikaTek Electronics @kofisikaa]

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[Precious @athenaartemis_]

The last-minute goal Wolves will score will hit like crack 😂😂😂

[Marko Denic @denicmarko]

Big thanks to the person who created ILovePDF and made it free online.

[Rola @kofoworola__a]

“Give me PSG” “Give me PSG”

Them don finally give us psg o

[MAH @matissearmani]

Blessed to be 6 points away from the magical 40 point safety mark. Fresh from breaking bread with our Kazakhstan cousins midweek. Hoping to be apart of the premiership for another season. As we take on Ireland’s 2nd best team next week. So humble & thankful. 🙏🏽💙

[Ceejay @Sir_jaay01]

We win Brentford and we are officially out of relegation zone and our next target is to finish above 14th so we can sign Sancho.

[Oh Chale. @Tbag__1]

Wuhan people sef no Dey pay covid levy

[𝕺𝖒𝖔𝕺𝖌𝖆𝕿𝖊𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖗 @eraytee7]

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[k•bby @kobby_dru]

@thespacesystem I received my daily reminder 😂

[k•bby @kobby_dru]

@thespacesystem 🤣😂😂

[k•bby @kobby_dru]

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