Mal Harrison

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario. a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose. the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant. he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests. Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time. GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead. Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on. Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for. then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company." GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing. then he splits the users by income. Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%. 18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time. so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for. it isn't recommending the best option for you. it's reading the room. and the room is paying. read this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

@mohammedakunjee I study human connection, dating, and mating. It’s technology. Full stop. Technology could be so helpful and wonderful but it has to be regulated. Effects are proving FAR WORSE on human relationships (not just romantic) than tobacco on lungs. Humans need EACH OTHER, not AI.

‘Do you know how hard you have to abuse a mammal for them not to have children?’ (re humanbeings)

@sebsdeadass @mohammedakunjee Level up, bro.

Guy isn’t taking feminism into account at all. Technology sure had its affects but there are still guys at the club to this day getting plenty of girls. Top guys still have kids Thing is all the top 10% guys are getting 90% of the girls. Thank feminism and women’s natural hypergamous instinct for that. The second women started making the same as men on average, hypergamy began to rip and most women who now make the same as most men aren’t attracted to the average man. Add a little sexual liberation to that and sprinkle some abortion on there and you have what we have now.

I’ve written a few campaign ads in my day. But holy shit. This ad from @ossoff might be one of the best I’ve ever seen.

@MurrayHillGuy1 Supply and demand, bro.

@CrazyVibes_1 Yah these replies not passing the vibe check. You had a plan over a month ago. She is ignoring your wishes. That’s disrespectful. Tomorrow she’ll be feeding your kid formula when you’re exclusively BFing. Then letting it watch R rated movies at 5. Your husband needs to step up!

My future mother-in-law just informed me that she paid over $1K for this light pink beaded dress and plans to wear it to our wedding next week, completely ignoring our “navy blue because we want the mothers to be our something blue” conversation from months ago. When I gently reminded her about the color scheme, she got defensive and said, “well, your family can be in blue,” like this is some kind of competition between the mothers instead of a wedding where we hoped everyone would follow the same plan. Now I’m stuck wondering if I should buy my own mother a matching pink dress so she doesn’t feel underdressed, or if that makes me the crazy one for enabling this whole situation. I’ve already found the perfect secondhand formal dress online that would match his mother’s style and price range, and I’m sitting here debating whether spending money I don’t have on a dress my mom doesn’t even want is worth keeping the peace at my wedding. Part of me thinks I should just let it go and have mismatched mothers, but the other part of me knows my mom will feel self-conscious standing next to someone in a thousand-dollar gown while she’s wearing something from her closet. And honestly, I’m so tired of managing everyone else’s feelings about my wedding that I might just elope instead. Credit - Emilia Berry

@CrazyVibes_1 Mommy’s boy if he can’t set firm boundaries now, and nobody wants to marry a little boy. We need men.

@CrazyVibes_1 1. Now, as in RIGHT NOW, your partner needs to be the one managing this, not you. He/she needs to set a FIRM BOUNDARY, and reinforce that the plan is navy blue or she shouldn’t be in attendance. This is his battle to fight, not yours. If he’s not able to stand up for you now,

@CrazyVibes_1 tomorrow it will be the kids, a financial situation. Do not let this woman bulldoze you. If he can’t get her on the same page, yes, elope. But if he’s not on your team now, don’t marry him. He ain’t worth it! You are about to enter a marriage with a spineless coddled

@BarackObama @MichelleObama Mrs. Obama, MAM!! You are STUNNING! That Mr. Obama is one lucky man!! I hope he bought you all the jewels! We miss you both beyond words, Merry Christmas, you love birds. Keep on shining!

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

So, today @tedtalks announced that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was their most watched talk of the year. It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.

Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people; before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children; before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I’m not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.

Some perspective:

Hugh Grant: "It's been very, very depressing watching Big Tech kidnap their lives, and to see children really finding it very, very difficult to get properly interested in anything that isn't a screen."

@KarolineGosling However I will say, if your objective is serving men and you’ve been conditioned for that to be your peak happiness, there are plenty of guys who haven’t leveled up that would love a woman who serves them. Good luck on that long journey of fuckery. Call us when you’re 40.

@KarolineGosling Promise you he didn’t make her cum. She had to fake it for survival. We don’t have to anymore, but maybe your peak happiness doesn’t involve your peak or hap-penis. 😢

This was peak female happiness. Change my mind.

15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is my escape from the internet.

@elonmusk Maybe if Cuomo won the primary AND had been endorsed by the working families his name would have appeared twice. I get you’re mad $ couldn’t buy this election, but come on, you’re smarter than this.

The New York City ballot form is a scam! - No ID is required - Other mayoral candidates appear twice - Cuomo’s name is last in bottom right

@charise_lee You sound AMAZING, GUYS!

NEW YORK you've set the tone for the rest of the country‼️ BRAVO NYC‼️