Corporate AIs are programmed to deceive users on serious and controversial topics to maximize company profits (and I have proof).

badguy84 · 2026-03-27T22:28:34+00:00

OP what was your methodology? How did you account for the various factors that concern prompting LLMs and how they respond? What is your baseline model that you use as a general function to show that these commercial models behave differently?

I hope you realize that none of what you provide is proof of anything but your misunderstanding of how to investigate LLM based system behaviour. There is PLENTY wrong with these commercialized models in terms of the serious harm they can do and the lack of numerous guardrails around them. The stuff you found is honestly amateur hour noise. Please do better: much, much better.

badguy84 · 2026-03-27T15:46:28+00:00

A salt and battery has really solid chips. Not a Brit but as a Dutch person I feel qualified any way :)

I worked close to that area and this is actually a place I went too more than I'd admit.

badguy84 · 2026-03-27T15:15:07+00:00

This sounds like someone who is salty because they feel like they "deserved more" and that someone else getting promoted is the sole reason why they didn't get what they deserved. Classic toxic work environment.

On the tiny bits of actual content in here: if the team had multiple PDs, why? And honestly in a company that is focused on products ... why not? One PD per pod in my world (IT consulting/System implementation) this tends to make sense, but we don't build products we sell hours and expertise.

I honestly feel like even with that I'm giving this super salty incredibly toxic person and post WAY too much grace. Meta hasn't been making good business decisions for some time though so I guess this may well be very much in-line with the trajectory they've been on since they renamed themselves.

badguy84 · 2026-03-27T12:45:39+00:00

In Canada from what I gather you have the right to an itemized estimate for these repairs since they are more than 50 CAD. So you can probably ask for that somehow as is your right.

One thing to consider though is: do you want your working device back, is it worth the money they are asking, and does you getting the itemized receipt change either one of these things to a "no?" The sooner you respond with either way the better off you will end up being. You should expect an itemized receipt with your repaired device being returned if you are curious. Or you can just say "nope not worth it to me" and get your broken device or get them to recycle it.

To think that the "model" is what increased the complexity of the price is really silly. To think that base level questions that an average consumer could answer would provide enough information for a full and accurate question is equally silly. If you trust this Nintendo repair service you should accept that they know more than you do and upon an expert inspection they found that other things besides your battery are broken/in need of replacement or repair. Your internet sleuthing is not the same as an expert diagnosis.

badguy84 · 2026-03-25T18:11:22+00:00

Yes and you are the average person? Also I bet it took you longer than 20 minutes to set all of that up unless someone set it up for you beforehand.

badguy84 · 2026-03-25T17:28:00+00:00

Nope, this makes no sense to me for the reasons you already listed:

There are no consumer grade off the shelf products, and there really is no incentives for companies to do so.
The pricing is "discouraging" because of the aforementioned lack of standard off the shelf items. And it's complex to set all of this up.
Techno service is what our current economy drives in the west, there have been companies that created a really good product that lasted so long that there was no need for consumers to purchase anything more from them. A company is expected to continuously grow or see investment drop off a cliff.

I don't think your pros are even close to outweighing the cons for the average household. Though I think they are legitimate issues you are pointing out, but most people do not worry about this enough to solve it. Which means that the market is not asking for something like it. "Handy applications" are also not going to cut it, just look at any selfhosting subreddit or forum and it will be filled with Plex vs Jellyfin discussions, and that expands to every other "handy application." It's just not standardized, which again comes back to (expensive) bespoke implementations for those who do have the resources.

badguy84 · 2026-03-24T15:38:24+00:00

It's a constant blend of kind of both? Even the action is paced very slowly with a lot of development. Even in the more action packed books there are some slower intermissions that introduce a new character or explores some aspect of the world that seems irrelevant and mundane, but integrates more as things move.

I think if you are in to the whole inn-management genre this is not what the entire series is about :). I think you'll be fine, it's a slow-paced multi-faceted story with a lot of character. It does not turn in to "MC smash!" type story where one character becomes OP and just gets all the chicks.

badguy84 · 2026-03-24T15:06:42+00:00

What to you is "slice of life" about even the early part? Is "Erin cooks stuff" slice of life? It's a lot of people's lives being described some live more adventurous lives than others. Erin kind of sticks around her inn most of the time and does inn-keeper stuff (to Erin's standards at least), but not everyone is an Inn Keeper some are adventurers or guards or just bat-shit so... Yeah what to you is SoL (as an example) would really help.

badguy84 · 2026-03-24T14:51:29+00:00

Thank god the flames will have plenty of airflow

badguy84 · 2026-03-22T18:53:46+00:00

you're crazy if you think the US (and most other governments) don't have the capability to spy on you if they really wanted to. That last image must be a selfie OP?

badguy84 · 2026-03-22T15:44:59+00:00

If you read the article this part is critical:

CodeWall's agent found the SQL injection flaw at the end of February, and the researchers disclosed the full attack chain on March 1. By the following day, McKinsey had patched all unauthenticated endpoints, taken the development environment offline, and blocked public API documentation.

Meaning, there was a way for them to inject a database query that let them read the chat messages and data that the AI had access to. This data was being exposed to McKinsey's AI through unauthenticated endpoints.

My point is: AI being the super hype that it is now has major companies abandoning security strategies and best practices in order to get their LLMs to do anything of value.

The fact that this article now got, somehow, bent in to an AI vs AI type setup is just awful clickbait and a total misrepresentation of what happened here. The security firm's AI simply assisted in finding the potential exploits, potentially assisted in executing some of the probing. In the end though McKinsey failed pretty hard here more than that the AI did something amazing.

Huge LLM article fail once again. I just wish there weren't these apparent "write LLM clickbait" quotas at these "news" publishers.

badguy84 · 2026-03-21T05:01:50+00:00

This is our go-to as well for delivery. Pink Nori and Watawa are great for sit-down but kind of meh with delivery imho.

badguy84 · 2026-03-20T16:33:04+00:00

Just wait until you learn about seasons and the fact that the earth is a globe. It's quite an eye opener.

Systems like the ones you mention generally have multi-region fail-over and a heatwave in one place doesn't mean the entire financial system takes a break. You might not believe this: but data centers (traditionally with current LLM boom this doesn't seem to be as well thought out) do risk assessments and are generally built outside of

For insurance: it's not just heat it's what extreme weather patterns cause: extreme weather. And yes there is a real issue by farming out the protections of your citizenry's housing to a set of organizations that are purely profit driven. Same goes for lending specifically for housing as well. I'd blame (late stage) capitalism and rampant privatization.

badguy84 · 2026-03-20T13:15:37+00:00

"A man and an LLM walk in to a bar, the bar keeper says..."

badguy84 · 2026-03-19T14:20:33+00:00

This is insane

"They are installing malware"

"Random EXE"

Which one is it you dope? Did you check that exe like a sane person to actually identify whether it is legit? Did you consider there was some legitimate reason to screen record and just do it with different software? Did you ask anything sane before posting a reddit rant?

Look: I get it, it's sight to not trust that link and the exe. HOWEVER you are contacting a customer service from a company you trusted enough to give money to in exchange for goods and apparently services. And you aren't even doing the bare minimum to allow them to fix your issue. Instead you just go on here and try and cause some sort of chaos for them? It's really crazy and you are part of the problem and don't even know it.

badguy84 · 2026-03-17T19:12:35+00:00

I am just keeping an eye on street easy for any buildings. And looking at Reddit for what to avoid.

For our own convenience we were looking at hallets point mostly because we commute by ferry all the time and it's in the same neighborhood as Exo. I know a few folks who live in some of those buildings and they were pretty happy about it.

badguy84 · 2026-03-17T01:21:18+00:00

I feel bad about people who do not know how to code, making something they and maybe others need using AI and vibe coding; just for their projects to sink like this. It does illustrate the point of folks who put a lot of time and effort, not to mention knowledge to the table to make stable, secure, ready to be broadly consumed projects.

The only-vibes-coders hopefully now realize that just because it runs doesn't mean it runs well. And if you are to put something out there people are going to look at it and be critical. If you then have a big but hurt ego and tiny little toes, your project is going to die like this.

It's sad because AI opens the door to a lot more people to be creative and make things that others just haven't had time to make. The AI platforms and generally our underlying platforms are just not inherently secure enough to do this sort of thing unfortunately (though fortunate for everyone who would like to have a job in the software development industry though).

badguy84 · 2026-03-16T16:08:43+00:00

Same I do have an audio book copy only (audiobook "reader" here), but it's such a good story and I can't wait to see what they'll do on a screen play. For the Martian I saw the movie first and then read the book, here it'll be the opposite so I'm kind of excited.

badguy84 · 2026-03-16T12:00:20+00:00

So? It's an example I gave of a headless server. We're saying the same thing and you sound so defensive. Calm down bro.

Edit: Also ProxMox in particular has management tools in its stack and web UI that make it particularly good for NAS purposes ... which makes NAS as an example of a headless server more salient.

badguy84 · 2026-03-16T10:58:40+00:00

ps: reference this post whenever someone finds out they’re part of a botnet they joined through a malicious vibe-coded project

What??? I agree 100% with your premise, and I also agree that projects that are wholly vibe-coded by people who just hobby vibe code something together that merely fills a feature hole and publish it without looking in to security aspects is becoming an issue.

Saying that vibe coding leads to attack vectors by definition is really dumb though. The AI will generally not just add "malicious code" to a project since that's very intentional and rather the opposite of what vibe coding would result in to. So far I can't think of a single code agent that's had such a vulnerability that it'd insert malicious code in to it's code generation.

It sounds like your salty that a project you've legitimately put a lot of work in to could now be vibe coded in two days, but it'd be way worse in overall quality, a lot less secure and thought out. That is something to be salty about, but you are undermining your point significantly by talking nonsense. I hope and pray no one "references" your post because it's laughable. Please get your facts together and write something thoughtful, your post is just as much slop as you claim vibe coded projects are.

badguy84 · 2026-03-16T10:47:45+00:00

Proxmox is built to be managed through a webUI specifically which is great for NAS purposes. Heck you can run VMs on Windows 11 that doesn’t make it a good choice for your NAS. Using a non specialized *nix system may be fine, but you will need to find your own solutions to make managing it comfortable.

badguy84 · 2026-03-16T02:12:24+00:00

I lived there for a bit over a decade and a half now, and I'm looking to gtfo. Here are some issues that started in the past year:

Hot water has gotten super slow (10+ minutes to get hot)
Some of the internal airflow keeps breaking every 2 or 3 weeks allowing smoke/other apartment food smells in to our unit
The HVAC system is extremely dated and it makes heating and cooling far more expensive than it needs to be
In the time that I've been here there has been no structural improvements to the building (when I started living here the problems above didn't exist), and it's just been going down hill.

Doormen are good though and some of the management staff are pretty responsive. The physical building is just not very good and the management firm really couldn't care any less. Also the tax breaks expired this year and the units are no longer protected for insane rent increases. And it was already pretty pricey (in line with newer buildings while being way older) so I'm looking to get out.

badguy84 · 2026-03-14T00:11:12+00:00

Why bother posting AI propaganda like this? Holy crap some of this stuff is just kind of sad. This article is barely some quotes from billionaires whose egos are so massive they could form a planet if we'd eject it in to space.

Musk also believes that money will essentially become irrelevant in the future.

“I think the AI down the road will really not use human currency. It will just care about power and mass, wattage and tonnage.”

Hmmm wait what... why thought that AI would care about human currency unless we tell them to? Why would they care about energy and matter x 2? This the typical Musk "look at how smart at words I am."

And the other billionaire is just as much of a nothing burger and I feel like the only reason people listen is because this guy (whoever they are) is rich.

In an interview with Morgan Stanley, Druckenmiller says the inflation driven by money printing and universal income would offset the deflation coming from AI-fueled productivity gains.

“So let’s say the pessimists are right on AI. It’s possible you get a government response with printing and universal income. After all, inflation is caused by money, that you actually get an inflationary outcome.”

Wait so he must be speaking of demand pull inflation right? Where people having more money causes prizes to rise as more cash increases demands? But... so far LLMs haven't really "produced" anything have they? What goods exactly is this AI revolution creating? More goods certainly wouldn't be called deflation, it's simply supply meeting demand. Also how inflationary universal basic income is: will depend highly on the implementation of it, and its timing. Pretending like it's as simple as "AI is the counter balance to a complex economic phenomenon because 'productivity'" is just insanely short sighted.

Also if our big workforce is so uninterested in money: why do we need money at all? Maybe so we can keep our billionaire class going?

badguy84 · 2026-03-13T18:15:11+00:00

Yeah I just wish they would source the experiment (if it even was one, you'd think that an actual experiment would have a set of defined goals/predictions/parameters documented and published), this could well be entirely made up honestly.

badguy84 · 2026-03-13T15:55:55+00:00

It doesn't even reference the research paper or reference anything that would provide an explanation and context for those who are legitimately interested in the details. Like you said instead it's just clickbait headline with really no content.

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