Uploaded a pic of a cherry angioma on my leg to AI. It diagnosed me with androgenetic alopecia due to my sparse (leg) hair on the vertex (my knee). It is so very wrong, but very right. đđđđ
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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
ALT Research paper analyzing how large language models in AI chatbots navigate conflicts of interest due to advertisement influences.
Prediction markets for clinical trial outcomes.
Verifying my account on endpointarena.com
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I donât understand how this is a good deal? Before this campaign, gas was cheaper, Iran didnât officially control the Strait, and we had bases in the region. After, gas is more expensive, Iran controls the strait, and we need to remove our troops from regional bases?
Lol Duke. Down by 11 at the half. Siena only played 5 players the whole first half. Scheyerâs mouth will never be wider than it is today yelling at his team. đđđđ
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Now that Obamaâs poll numbers are in tailspin â watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.
Not vaccinating your kidâŚis a choice. A choice that affects others, average people like me, someone who has gotten the MMR three times because Iâve been non-immune on every measles titer Iâve gotten.
This story gets increasingly infuriating and insane as you read it.
- Mom decides not to vaccinate kids against measles, because of the âunnecessary stuffâ in the vaccines and the âdamageâ she has seen in other kids who got the vaccine. (???)
âWhy do we need to add so much to our childrenâs bodies?â she asked.â
- Decide to believe antivax nonsense rather than your own doctors. Absolutely idiotic decision, but hey, it's your decision as a parent, fine.
- Kids get the measles (totally unnecessarily), and expose others in the community too. Brothers get lucky and recover. This kid unfortunately gets sicker.
- Parents say hmm, thatâs weird, why is he getting weaker and drifting in and out of consciousness? I thought measles was supposed to be harmless and a quick recovery! (Guess the anti-vaxxers didn't educate them about the risks of measles encephalitis?)
- Kid taken to local, smaller, ER, admitted, and placed on antibiotics. God knows what chemicals and âunnecessary stuffâ is in these IV fluids and antibiotics, but that doesnât matter much now, obviously
- Unclear diagnosis at this time, doctors recommend transfer to a larger center for evaluation. Totally appropriate thing to do. Parents decline, and say, hey if ALL you're doing is just giving him antibiotics, weâll just take him home and keep an eye on him and help him get better at home.
- He goes home, gets worse, unsurprisingly. Taken emergently to the large hospital. Damn near dies, in the ICU, hooked up to IV lines, tubes, pumped full of fluids and God knows what chemicals, to keep him alive.
- MRI consistent with brain swelling, etc, basically: measles encephalitis. Kid is essentially paralyzed.
Reminder, this is a serious and potentially deadly complication of measles. No cure. Totally vaccine-preventable condition, so this whole ordeal is totally unnecessary.
- Mom says, I STILL wouldnât give my kids the vaccine, even if I KNEW this would happen. God has a plan.
So you would totally let this happen again to another kid of yours?
????????
How cooked are people's brains that they will sacrifice their own kids to... own the libs?
This is so tragic. That poor kid. Completely preventable. Basic public health should not be a partisan issue.
This administration could have done so much to rebuild the public trust in our public health institutions that was eroded during the pandemic, but nope.
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I am not a fan of Tucker Carlson. I disagree a lot with Carlson. But as an interviewer, Carlson actually, brilliantly, asks follow-up questions, and keeps going, in a way that pretty much no US TV interviewer has done with pro-Israel guests since Oct 7.
And Huckabee falls apart.
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Okay so,
1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution
2) after coming to the aid of an unarmed woman who's been shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent, the citizen -- impaired by pepper spray, holding nothing but a cell phone -- is dragged to the ground by a group of other masked agents
3) during the scuffle, shortly after one masked agent removes the weapon from the restrained citizen's person, several other masked agents open fire, unloading 10 shots from close range and killing the unarmed citizen
4) despite video evidence, a spokesman for the federal government says the citizen approached agents with a gun, provoked a violent confrontation, and planned to "massacre" law enforcement
You really want to defend this? Go ahead. Just know, you look like an absolute fool.
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If the Second Amendment does not apply to this exact kind of moment, what do people think it is for?
A citizen can lawfully carry, see masked federal agents beating someone in public, move toward the scene to help, and then get erased with a hail of bullets because âhe had a gun.â
That excuse is an insult in a country where possession is legal by design, where the whole point is that the public never becomes a disarmed audience watching state power operate with impunity.
Iâm not interested in arguing frame-by-frame footage. Iâm interested in the principle that a free people cannot accept a standard where lawful carry becomes a death sentence the second authority feels threatened.
If that is the standard, then the 2nd Amendment has been reduced to a vibe. The founders did not write it so Republicans could do militia cosplay on weekends.
