andi:)

being extra is my favourite hobby. that, and writing

[andi:) @smallassmf]

to anyone with my tweet notifs on:
i am kind of sorry

[Rajjath @Rajjath24]

turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

So, Canada today refused to criminalize residential school denialism and also refused to examine its complicity in the genocide in Gaza. Canada is basically just a genocide denial country at this point. So much for peacekeeper myth?

[Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astro_jaz]

the universe is woke and wishes you a happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🌌

[Ted Rutland @TedRutland]

If we are going to call the cost of public services a “loss,” then Canadian police forces lost $20 billion last year while delivering no birthday presents and also killing a lot of people.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[seven 🪶 @sevenofquills]

@Staladus I was thinking about that and how I feel about religion. I arrived at the sentence "we may not be brothers in faith, but today we are brothers in belief".

[Staladus 🐁 @Staladus]

The atheism leaving my body the moment the Pope starts talking about how AI is an affront to God and the new Tower of Babel

[alex ⁉️ @galoostix]

y’all genuinely have to lock in this year no discourse no ironic homophobia no dumb shit we gotta uplift the community and especially trans people right now

[Joonas Virtanen @joonasvirtanen]

made a site that picks the closest rothko for how the weather feels outside your window

[brandi 🦇 @mikeyswayy]

Fun fact that I don't see a lot of people mention or is even talked about in schools, but Terry was Métis !!

[Dr. Ellen Walker @EllenFWalker]

Eric Carle's artwork is beautiful because it captures both the bare visuals of nature and the primal wonder of experiencing it for the first time. That's why children love it- it emphasises fiercely with their own perspective.

[andi:) @smallassmf]

i should be paid one billion dollars for today

[andi:) @smallassmf]

@drpepper fix ur customer relations experiences god damn

[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.

[sophist @no_sophist]

we already have a data centre in my neighbourhood. it's called? The Public Library

[aaliyah @enchantingliyah]

I’d rather be regular stupid over chatgpt-stupid tbh

[✨ Tara Wine-Queen Writes ✨ @TaraWineQueen]

Matilda did not walk her four-year-old self to the public library every afternoon to soak up every possible moment she could in the comfort of books and joy of learning for you to not take advantage of your local library’s innumerable charms

[andi:) @smallassmf]

there’s shit on instagram that i “reposted” that i dont remember reposting

[m1nt_ @RubberDuckShobe]

@xdncolonthree what it looked like before, for anyone wondering