Doreen Cooper

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@tribunephl This is heartbreaking 💔

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@ABC So much respect for the hard work our fisherman do 🙌

[Doreen Cooper @superwithcooper]

@kikopangilinan Sen @kikopangilinan, please include stronger animal welfare education, laws and implementation among your priorities. Everyday, so many animals suffer from abuse and negligence and reflect how cruel our people can be.

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

Yesterday, I locked myself in my office for 7 hours, inhaling 50+ articles about AI.

I did this to unlock more bandwidth for my team.

But these 7 were too good not to share:

[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.

[Selina @selinaai_]

I just deleted Duolingo.

Claude taught me French in 33 days.

Copy these 6 prompts and see how fast you learn:

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Charles Darwin only worked about 4 hours a day. He worked for two 90-minute periods each morning & then one 60-minute period later in the day. Before the latter, he would take an hour nap & go on 2 walks. On this schedule he wrote 19 books including The Descent of Man & On the Origin of Species.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Did you know that if you put 100 black ants and 100 red ants together in a jar, they usually coexist peacefully? But if you shake the jar hard, they immediately turn on each other and start killing one another. The red ants see the black ants as enemies, and the black ants see the red ants as enemies. Yet the real enemy is the one shaking the jar.
The same thing happens in human society. Before we turn on each other, we should stop and ask ourselves: who is shaking the jar?

[Doreen Cooper @superwithcooper]

@gmanews God bless you!

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.

And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.

The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.

This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.

A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.

So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.

Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.

Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.

Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.

The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.

What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

[Doreen Cooper @superwithcooper]

@BeAnINQUIRER @inquirerdotnet @edlyrandioINQ I hope she's adopted 🙏

[Doreen Cooper @superwithcooper]

@sathyashrii @peta I hope the poor thing is rescued 😭

[Doreen Cooper @superwithcooper]

@KalamCenter I hope he gets adopted by a wonderful family 🙏

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@IanEsguerra Thanks for calling him out. He did gaslighting pa! Kasalanan pa ng publiko.

[Doreen Cooper @superwithcooper]

@gmanews Please don't use dogs in a derogatory sense. Dogs are some of the best creatures on the planet. My own dog is the kindest, sweetest, and most loyal girl. We already have high cases of animal abuse without our elected officials talking about animals this way.

[Doreen Cooper @superwithcooper]

@gmanews I hope she gets adopted 🙏🙏🙏

[Doreen Cooper @superwithcooper]

@gmanews I hope she gets adopted 😭

[ABS-CBN News Channel @ANCALERTS]

Dont leave them behind. Let’s not forget to include our pets in our preparations for Typhoon #UwanPH.

[Doreen Cooper @superwithcooper]

@inquirerdotnet They just want to live 😭

[Doreen Cooper @superwithcooper]

Instead, it became a platform for how she was being treated unfairly and how much money she was losing by not being at Fashion Week.

[Doreen Cooper @superwithcooper]

When Heart married Chiz, she legally took on the responsibilities connected with being a politician's wife.
I was a fan of her fashion week work projects.
But being a fan also means holding people accountable to their actions and calling them out when necessary.