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Well, I for one certainly hope the English media slam an English player for voicing his dissatisfaction about a manager on social media. And before a World Cup squad has even been officially announced.

Ballon d'Or update

@hpfounder Warren Buffet says STFU

If you want a healthy brain, do not have a fat belly.

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.

"I keep seeing beautiful things and I can't help but wonder, will I have an opportunity to see them again?" Tonight on #RTEUncharted, Olympian Ciara Mageean bravely opens up about her cancer diagnosis. 9.35pm on RTÉ One & RTÉ Player

This is so tough. Ciara Mageean is something else ❤️

Unai Emery has now won as many European trophies as Manchester United

@LFCZA @BackseatsmanLFC Carragher (& Gerrard) were the most influential in pushing for Hodgson. This was all over YNWA.tv forums at the time from very reliable lads. Carragher was very vocal on it having to be an English manager.

@BackseatsmanLFC Of course he would be the best player, but if Carra and Gerrard knew what the consequences of deserting Rafa the way they did (Hodgson, losing Torres etc) - perhaps they'd have not done what they did.

Listening to Rafa on Stick to Football makes me love him even more. Did about 7 different jobs at the club just to keep us alive during Hicks & Gillette. Learned the American business model so he could plan out the club's finances to keep us competitive. What a man.

@Himanshu_ahujaa @BackseatsmanLFC He got it from Cuban heeled Christian Purlsow on his last day in the job. His last act was to sort his pet out. Carragher aligned with H&G and that cunt Purslow. And he has the bollox to call out Salah? Give over. Rent a quote bluenose gobshite

@BackseatsmanLFC Check the dates, he got a new contract for back-stabbing Rafa when club was near administration 🤡

@RobGutmann They are not serious people

Those not interested in changing LFC manager now are just being perverse. There’s not a status club on the planet in any era that wouldn’t make the switch. And the trajectory that suggests LFC wont make the change is seemingly being governed by men who have no loyalty to the cause in the immediate, never mind medium term, future.

One of Us: Becoming Andy Robertson 📺 An original documentary by The Anfield Wrap produced on behalf of its subscribers, telling the story of Liverpool and Scotland's greatest left back. On The Anfield Wrap App and Youtube tomorrow.

Been a brilliant experience working on this - mostly because of how much the player has meant to everyone. We can only do this because of the support of our subscribers, it’s to Andy on behalf of them. & How the team have brought it to life to look & sound to Netflix standard 🤯

Pull a bobble out of someone’s hair. Red card, violent conduct Rake your studs down someone’s calf. Play on

@sarm0161 Hard argue with any of that.

Guardiola is the best coach of elite players there’s ever been. Ferguson is the best builder of a football club there’s ever been. I don’t think either could have done the other as well. So it’s not really worth comparing.

@BackseatsmanLFC @AnfieldSector That line from Pearce could be read both ways yano... me thinks Jamesie is having his own little sly dog at the data nerds for insisting they stick with Slot

@AnfieldSector Surprised they didn't say that Amorim was Klopp's pick

[🟢] INFO: Alonso is beloved in Liverpool, but senior club sources insist his candidacy for the manager’s job at Anfield has always been overstated. He was not offered the role two years ago; at the time, he made it clear that he wanted to lead Leverkusen into the Champions League. A data-led search for Klopp’s successor yielded Slot and Ruben Amorim as the two top candidates and Slot, the clear first choice, showed great desire for the job and delivered the Premier League title in his first season in England. There is a belief at Liverpool that this achievement has been underplayed and Slot retains their faith, despite this season’s struggles. [@TheAthleticFC]

@sarm0161 Ah he was phenomenal. Faultless. A mate of mine played with him up in Donegal last yr. Charity thing. Said he was dead sound in the changies and the pub afterward. By a mile the most famous there whikst also the least assuming. Says a lot about him.

@whelfam Ha! Stam is the best defender I’ve ever seen.

Neville would want points deducted if a United player did that

@BBCMOTD No team has ever gone a full season without giving away a penalty or a red card Arteta's Arsenal...

Should Kai Havertz have been sent off? 🤔 VAR checked the challenge for serious foul play, but the on-field decision of a yellow card was upheld.

@TheAnfieldWrap Emlyn Hughes

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I wonder if the Salah Statement might be partly in anticipation of announcing he is going somewhere we might not want him to go