Congratulations to Ryan Rollins on receiving the March NBA Cares Bob Lanier Community Assist Award for his dedication to youth literacy, supporting justice-impacted youth, and growing the game of basketball. 👏
🚨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.
The Milwaukee Bucks have the best half-court offense in basketball (103.8 ORTG, 6.6 points above league average) since January 1st.
Giannis has missed over half of those games.
It's a 106.4 specifically since he's been out.
What's incredible is if you spend your career arguing that "white" culture and identity is categorical, distinct and threatened, you should *at bare minimum* be able to define it.
A Mexican immigrant was taken to a Minneapolis hospital after bones in his face and skull were broken while he was in federal custody.
ICE agents initially claimed he had tried to flee while handcuffed and “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall."
But staff members at the hospital determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the man's brain. https://t.co/EzRInGZGIH
Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers just completely eviscerated, Donald Trump and ICE over the murder of Renee Good.
"What happened in Minnesota was straight up murder, in my opinion. This lady was probably trying to go home and she didn't make it home. The whole ice thing, it's a travesty… I keep thinking about kids and when I grew up, the president was always the role model. And I think about that and the effect of being a bully, lying — how's that good for our kids?"