Michelle_Brookman_Real_Estate

Realtor® at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties, Beverly Hills. Pickleball, Peloton, Food, Travel are my hobbies. DRE#01065606

[Michelle_Brookman_Real_Estate @michellbrookman]

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[Michelle_Brookman_Real_Estate @michellbrookman]

@LaInaMinute My childhood

[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.

[Michelle_Brookman_Real_Estate @michellbrookman]

@JustineBateman 2 flats in 2026 so far 😩

[Nick Gerli @nickgerli1]

Home sales in California are down 37% from their pandemic peak.

And by 25% from the long-term average.

Indicating a massive homebuyer strike underway in California right now.

This homebuyer strike is starting to increase inventory. And values are now even dropping in many California counties.

This is a situation to monitor in the 2nd Half of the Year. If California's housing market continues into recession, it could have big implications for the U.S. market more broadly.

[Michelle_Brookman_Real_Estate @michellbrookman]

@CaitlinPacific Missing out!! It’s so fun & always a great collection of people!

[L.A. in a Minute @LaInaMinute]

L.A. County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath is spearheading a new solution to Homelessness in Los Angeles.

Will it Help?!?

Full interview with @LindseyPHorvath:
https://t.co/h1dQbsVPlk

[Michelle_Brookman_Real_Estate @michellbrookman]

@LaInaMinute @LindseyPHorvath Happy to hear there’s a new approach to the homeless crisis. Fingers crossed!

[Michelle_Brookman_Real_Estate @michellbrookman]

@AC360 @GaryTuchmanCNN This is a wonderful family, as you can see.

[Michelle_Brookman_Real_Estate @michellbrookman]

As a 10 year member of @onepeloton I am dismayed that they are not offering free app access to those who lost their bikes and treads in the #PalisadesFire and #EatonFire. So simple. And it's impossible to speak to anyone in corporate now. Terrible corporate irresponsibility!

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

This is a hub of all verified @GoFundMe pages for CA wildfire victims vetted by the GoFundMe Trust and Safety team

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[Michelle_Brookman_Real_Estate @michellbrookman]

@ericspillman Unrecognizable

[Michelle_Brookman_Real_Estate @michellbrookman]

@JonVigliotti Please keep posting. We don’t know which streets & houses were destroyed. Info is so hard to get. Thx!

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Yesterday’s Wordle in 2.

That’s gotta be a sign, people.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

👀 BREAKING: This ad, when tested, moves under-30-men by 2+ points away from Donald Trump.

That’s HUGE MOVEMENT!

Please share widely!

Guys don’t want to be controlled either. #MAGAInYourSheets

[Michelle_Brookman_Real_Estate @michellbrookman]

@BW_Jones From Will, It was Martin O’Malley in 2016 who said,”During the first democratic debate (while being mocked for not bowing to the inevitability of Hilary’s bid): the Presidency is not a chalice to be passed back and forth between the Clinton and bush families. “

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[Michelle_Brookman_Real_Estate @michellbrookman]

@SamSokol42 Happy Anniversary to the most awesome couple in the world!

[Michelle_Brookman_Real_Estate @michellbrookman]

I love this photo of my hometown.

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Check out this sight from Culver City of the Hollywood sign and snow capped mountains behind it! 😍🗻❄️

📸: Ross Kestin