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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.

This is very concerning and affecting all TEXANS. With the mad dash for AI data centers to pop up all over TX, our water is being targeted. 🚨RURAL WELL OWNERS: 🚨 PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT TEXAS LEGASLTURE IS PLANNING The 2027 Draft of the Texas Water Plan makes one thing very clear: Texas is preparing for massive future water demand and groundwater is a major target!!! Now is your turn to stand up and have your voices heard. The state is openly discussing: • groundwater development • streamlined permitting • desalination • aquifer storage • AI/data center demand • expanding infrastructure projects They are projecting nearly $174 BILLION in future water infrastructure needs. What does that mean for rural communities? It means places with strong aquifers, open land, and private wells are increasingly being looked at for large-scale groundwater production and export projects. Many people still think: “They can’t take our water.” But once contracts, pipelines, permits, and investors get involved, things change quickly. RIGHT NOW the state is accepting PUBLIC COMMENT on the Draft 2027 State Water Plan and this is one of the few chances rural Texans have to get concerns officially on record. 📍 PUBLIC HEARING: May 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM Stephen F. Austin Building 1700 North Congress Ave. Austin, Texas (Also available virtually through Microsoft Teams) 🗣 HOW TO SPEAK UP: • Submit written comments to the Texas Water Development Board before May 29 • Attend the public hearing in person or online • Contact your state representatives and groundwater district officials • Ask questions about groundwater export projects in your area • Educate your neighbors and fellow landowners If you care about: • your private well • water quality • aquifer depletion • agriculture • future generations NOW is the time to speak up. Because once these projects are built, it’s a whole lot harder to stop them.

What level of common sense does a psychiatrist have?

basically every form of anything has that problem, the simpsons is now written by people whose only background is in watching the simpsons, snl with snl, star wars with star wars, pop music with pop music

Now take a look at ECT Zero basic science The poorest quality of clinical data In the USA its use is expanding to children It is unmonitored and unregulated no reporting and no follow up of patients beyond the last ECT Thousands of ppl are disabled -permanent sense retrograde amnesia Severe neurocognitive defecits all its told “ ECT is fast safe and effective” The better the insurance coverage the more ECT is given

every time i see my mom, she lists off a litany of serious health problems that our relatives and her friends have recently developed. many are in their 50s, and many have cancer. it's stunning that people think it's always been this way. welcome to the "new normal"

Today, I led 15 of my colleagues in sending a letter to RFK Jr. calling out his dangerous and wrong attacks on critical psychiatric medications. 
HHS should be focused on the systemic drivers of our nation’s mental health crisis, not spreading misinformation.