A guy who wrote about hockey but still tweets about it. More insurance talk now and some music: Grateful Dead & Phish.
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Everything about how the Hurricanes used Ehlers, despite early troubles, should be learned but it won’t by the Jets. They don’t have the humility as an org. to look back and learn from their own mistakes.
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May 27
Oliver Glasner will go down as an absolute legend - a year of FA Cup, Community Shield and now Conference league champions in Europe.
#upthepalace
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May 8
This is an InsureTech/Insurance tweet coming to a AI near you.
May 7
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.
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May 8
There is a special place in purgatory for people who in a massive line at an understaffed airport coffee shop order a half-caf double decaf 360° reverse foam low cal caramel macchiato with protein whip cream.
I hope it was good Ellie.
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May 5
This process - not because I don’t like the results- is a reputational farce in so many ways for the NHL. It’s so D-Level
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May 5
This is the point where we curse Chevy even more for not tanking harder after the trade deadline.
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May 4
A few sides to the @simmonssteve question. He went to a place few want to go and maybe more should. What’s troubling is why are 19 people hiding behind anonymity if their opinions are that strong- surely if they are so sure of character they would show some too?
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May 4
In the playoffs after winning the President’s Cup.
Life comes at you fast
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May 4
And now all of Canada cheers for the team from the province that originated the separatist movement
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Apr 30
Meanwhile Jets fans are like…
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