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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.

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"Never files HR complaints" is an odd thing to say 🤔

@suchnerve not really since they just rotate whoever has the least to lose to give the votes needed to regress society. the extreme majority of dems are complicit unfortunately

Convenient checklist for which Dems to primary next season, and yes this IS a sufficiently severe offense to justify ending their political careers over it.

@frogmawLoL @JoaCast99 @PseudoMonious most actually visually significant games will end up on that list eventually, because the internet exists now. things are discovered and unpacked to the ends of the earth no matter what

@_undeadinside @JoaCast99 @PseudoMonious

I can feel the exhaustion oozing out of the course's instructor

@kyrovsandor @Universal4karts so what??? they dont have the esteem they used to have... and by the way, neither does french 😂

@_undeadinside @Universal4karts It's kinda mauvais ton) Especially to mix these certain languages)

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@kyrovsandor @Universal4karts languages mix and merge all the time. you are a tar pit

@Universal4karts «MULTIamorous” XOR “polyPHILIAC”. Stop mixing Latin and Greek in one word.

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I cannot recommend Baroque enough. It's full of despair, depression and a fever dream apocalypse. Everything is JUST right about being a Roguelike on the fucking PLAYSTATION ONE!!! If you absolutely cannot gut the controls, watch "Most painful RPG" on Youtube for a wild ride.

This shouldve gotten more attention.

@frogmawLoL @JoaCast99 @PseudoMonious basically the professor doesnt seem to understand that formative childhood games tend to be wildly popular ones or ones with strong visual identity. like the ones listed here

@_undeadinside @JoaCast99 @PseudoMonious and that also illucidates more of why the exercise could be useful; it's worthwhile for art students to analyze works that arent seen as good (even though I think all works are flawwed in some ways), or strictly renowned yet, we can never really know since its just a viral tweet

@frogmawLoL @JoaCast99 @PseudoMonious i mean, then the assignment shouldnt have been to deconstruct the art design of memorable games from ones childhood. because those tend to be widely acclaimed and talked about to death.

@_undeadinside @JoaCast99 @PseudoMonious idk what you want for academic material, they're supposed to be analyzing the art direction themselves yeah? the professor probably distinctly does not want games that have already been talked about to death, so students exercise their own analysis

@GarbageWastes please form a stronger mental distinction between fiction and reality

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They sell LED bulbs in the colour tone on the left. I sent emails and made phone calls to people in my local council until they changed the bulbs on my street. You can do the same.

@jane_trademark its because the assignment was specifically to talk about a game you grew up with, not something you havent played before. the professor is literally just trying to remedy their own boredom.

engage with old stuff that you haven’t before if you wanna learn about game design. one of my first assignments in a class like this made me go play bubble bobble and castlevania on nes and i had so much fun writing about them

this is like the most reasonable guidelines for an assignment why are people freaking out about a gamedev course asking you to engage with something that everyone hasn’t already talked about

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in america they destroy them to keep the prices high

@ItsNotTonho @kawan_bz @LiaSampp actually, catnip is also a combination of hundreds of chemical components that act on the feline brain- it even shares a large amount of terpenes with marijuana and originates from the same region floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/catnip…

@kawan_bz @LiaSampp Não porque a maconha tem uma combinação de mais de 400 compostos químicos que agem no seu cérebro

Queria muito entender como funciona, n é possível que seja o unico animal q é aceitável dar droga recreativa