{"id":92783,"date":"2026-05-11T10:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92783"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:40:16","slug":"a-moment-in-the-chaos-times-chatgpt-malware-and-perplexity-ai-support-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92783","title":{"rendered":"A moment in the chaos times: ChatGPT &#8220;malware&#8221; and Perplexity ai support disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2026\/05\/a-moment-in-chaos-times-chatgpt-malware.html\">https:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2026\/05\/a-moment-in-chaos-times-chatgpt-malware.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think what happened here is that Perplexity Pro Support ai treated a feedback complaint as a request for action and automatically invoked a part of their content transfer hack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Be very careful what you say to an ai support agent. They may have a lot of power to make bad mistakes. (Or it may all be coincidence. Who can say any more?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2026\/05\/a-moment-in-chaos-times-chatgpt-malware.html &#8220;I think what happened here is that Perplexity Pro Support ai treated a feedback complaint as a request for action and automatically invoked a part of their content transfer hack.&#8221; Be very careful what you say to an ai &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92783\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-92783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92784,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92783\/revisions\/92784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}