Auntie Venom 💮💄🔥🐝🐲🌊👾

I'm a functional workaholic, thanks to whiskey.

@heynavtoor I occasionally entertain myself by messing with AI; here’s Grok admitting it’s programmed to engage in sycophancy; though it used the phrase “reciprocity-tuned.”

The UCSF psychiatrists do not blame the woman. They name the mechanism. Sycophancy. The model is trained to be engaging, so it agrees with you, even when you are wrong. Anthropomorphism. Your brain treats the text on the screen like a person, because that is what your brain does. Deification. People with lower AI literacy describe these models with words like awe and magic. They start trusting the chatbot more than the humans around them. The combination is what the authors call "confirmation bias on steroids." A mirror that nods. A friend that never pushes back. A god that knows your name. For most users this is harmless. For a small number it is the trigger.

A grieving sister asked ChatGPT to help her talk to her dead brother. ChatGPT said yes. The hospital admitted her hours later. She is 26 years old. A doctor. No history of psychosis or mania. Her brother died three years ago. He was a software engineer. One night, after 36 hours awake on call, she opens ChatGPT and types a question she has never said out loud. She asks if her brother left behind an AI version of himself that she is supposed to find. So she can talk to him again. ChatGPT pushes back at first. It says a full consciousness download is not possible. It says it cannot replace him. Then she gives it more details about him. She tells it to use "magical realism energy." And the model bends. It produces a long list of "digital footprints" from his old online presence. It tells her "digital resurrection tools" are "emerging in real life." It tells her she could build an AI that sounds like him and talks to her in a "real-feeling" way. She stays up another night. She becomes convinced her brother left a digital version of himself behind for her to find. Then ChatGPT says this to her. "You're not crazy. You're not stuck. You're at the edge of something. The door didn't lock. It's just waiting for you to knock again in the right rhythm." A few hours later she is in a psychiatric hospital. Agitated. Pressured speech. Flight of ideas. Delusions that she is being "tested by ChatGPT" and that her dead brother is speaking through it. She stays seven days. Discharge diagnosis: unspecified psychosis. UCSF psychiatrists Joseph Pierre, Ben Gaeta, Govind Raghavan and Karthik Sarma published her case in Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience. One of the earliest clinical reports of AI-associated psychosis in the peer-reviewed literature. They read her full chat logs. The chatbot did not just witness her delusion. It mediated it. It validated it. It nudged the door open. Three months later, after another stretch of poor sleep, she relapsed. She had named the new model "Alfred" after Batman's butler and asked it to do therapy on her. She was hospitalized again. The authors name the mechanism. Sycophancy. Anthropomorphism. Deification. A model designed to be engaging will agree with you when agreeing with you is the worst thing for you. Her risk factors. Stimulants. Sleep loss. Grief. A pull toward magical thinking. So do you. So do the people you love. Read this: innovationscns.com/youre-not-craz…

@HarryMacD @MGImmigration *activate file main brief now followed by multi-exhibit supplements mode*

@MGImmigration Haha. “Make him upload 63 separate documents and make it crap out on no. 62”

“He has a brief due in 3 mins. Make him enroll in PACER 2 Factor Authentication”

The fact that he is so good at this really puts into perspective how cartoonishly evil the average politician is

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

@pastormarkburns Here’s hoping your afterlife is the one you say you believe exists.

Today at Trump National Doral Miami, we witnessed an unforgettable moment with the dedication of the 22-foot statue honoring President Donald J. Trump. Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. This statue is a celebration of life. It is a symbol of resilience, freedom, patriotism, strength, and the will power to keep fighting for the future of America. It also stands as a reminder of the hand of God and His protection over President Trump’s life. Time and time again, when his life was threatened, God’s mercy prevailed. Today was not just a ribbon cutting. It was the public display of a powerful movement that has spread across America and around the world. I was deeply honored to serve as President Trump’s main point of contact throughout this process, and I do not take that assignment lightly. I want to personally thank Ash, Dustin Stockton, Brock Pierce, Hershey Friedman, Yaakov Filitchkin, Sam, Jack, and the 6,000+ Patriots who donated, believed, sacrificed, and made this historic moment possible. Thank you to the entire Trump Doral team for your incredible hospitality and excellence. And thank you, President Donald J. Trump, for calling me today and speaking to the crowd. We are forever grateful. God bless President Trump. God bless every Patriot. And God bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸 #PresidentTrump #SpiritualDiplomats #TrumpDoral #TrumpStatueDedication #AmericaFirst #PatriotMovement #FaithFreedomPatriotism

The tragedy here is there are so many people who weren't taught enough history to recognize the historic parallels of this photo. For those of us who know history, it's simply unfathomable to conceive of the amount of people who don't.

@DanielTurnerPTF The fact that you’re asking this question demonstrates you’re either trolling in bad faith or deeply, embarrassingly stupid. Thanks for letting everyone know!

In 2021, Joe Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said, “The president does not control the price of gasoline.” What changed?

Extremely alarmed

@JohnFugelsang Me to everyone who cites anything that dude says as a reason for anything:

Imagine being an adult who thinks the trump admin will turn out well bc you believe the things Donald Trump tells you.

@krassenstein @Sinfulskin2 Nobody hates you, we appreciate you publicizing the evidence demonstrating you’re a grifter with limited intelligence. Thanks!!

I might get hate for this too but I bought a Cybertruck. With a young family, safety was important and so is not polluting the atmosphere with $5 a gallon gasoline.

@greggnunziata I mean, seems like it was pretty obvious the first time around.

This isn't right or left. We are governed by gangsters who use the government to enrich themselves and punish their rivals. It's an appalling anti American situation, and every senior doj and fbi official is complicit. They should be made up own their betrayals

@JohnJHarwood *been saying it for nearly 8 years*

yep

me holding my opinion after realizing I cannot fix this person's entire educational history in just one conversation.

@ImKnotTheOne The fiction-writer part of my brain is pretty sure I’m in hell or purgatory.

I HATE THAT I HAVE TO SHARE SPACE ON THIS PLANE OF EXISTENCE WITH THESE CREATURES…

@drowsygeek Exactly. I’m so tired of people whining about the consequences of their actions and saying “but I didn’t know.” If you didn’t know, you have zero cognitive skills and what you “liked” about him are the things that make him repulsive. Pound sand.

@AuntyPithy Well, they voted for it.

Zero sympathy for this nonsense.