Post by @nev@flipping.rocks

2026-04-29 12:44 UTC

So, heads up, I'm seeing this post announcing palantirwatch.org being boosted a lot: https://indieweb.social/@perlman/116487195727382898 However, the site seems to be vibe coded and, while I've just picked stuff at random, most claims are lacking sources and/or just plain wrong. I think it is all generated by an LLM. - For example, the "Court Dossier" page mentions a 2019 case "Kik v. Palantir", about a "former partner" suing them for stealing fraud-detection tech. But a far as I can tell, there was no such case. - The op-eds listed on the "Media & Narrative" page don't exist. E.g., Alex Karp never wrote an op-ed for The Atlantic. - The few links given are incredibly generic (e.g., linking to a Bloomberg search result for "Alex Karp" rather than an actual story) or incorrect (like the Palantir page on OpenSecrets.org, which should be https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/palantir-technologies/summary?id=D000055177, and the figures don't match the website's). - None of the quotes on the "Karp File" page seem to be real. The creator's other sites appear to be LLM slop as well. edit: I pretty much never ask for boosts, but the original post currently has hundreds and hundreds of boosts. Please help fight AI slop and get the word out? :boost_ok:

Replies (12)

@addressforbots@social.apcn.nz 2026-04-29 14:23

@nev@flipping.rocks well it appears that whatever you're doing is working because the original post appears to be gone

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@BoTally54@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 13:06

@nev This, this is good. I don’t recall a company ever being founded and organized for the sole purpose of conducting malignant business practices. From the ground up, this is an evil monopoly. It didn’t evolve that way, it was designed to be a predator.

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@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz 2026-04-29 13:47

@nev Thanks for the heads-up!

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@dotsie@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 14:03

@nev lol, lmao even

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@dbrand666@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 14:22

@nev The site redirects to OpenSecrets' Palantir page now. It's possible he meant well.

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@MissConstrue@mefi.social 2026-04-29 18:30

@slotos @dbrand666 @nev A client of mine recently had a Sev that nobody could figure out. My first question was, has anyone checked for an ai push to prod? Sure enough, someone had overwritten the staff engineers code, and pushed. I just shrugged and said, well…it’s not my architecture, and not my monkeys. I can’t help you. This is out of scope for my contract. Would you like me to scope how to fix what I told you not to do? (I didn’t say it like that, but it is absolutely what I meant.)

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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-04-29 14:34

@nev Thanks! I went to unboost and indeed it looks like the original toot is gone.

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@FranceskaMann@freeradical.zone 2026-04-29 14:42

@nev how do we know you're real? It's interesting that as soon as Palantir faces accountability someone like you shows up to say oh no, it's all wrong.

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@StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca 2026-04-29 14:44

@nev Appreciate you doing all that work. We need transparency from developers when they create these things. I'd really love to know how many are fully aware of the inaccuracies that are baked into vibe coding.

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@the5thColumnist@ottawa.place 2026-04-29 15:17

@nev Remember folks just because something supports your side of an issue does not mean it is not fake or AI slop.

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@PictureBandit@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 16:01

@nev I liked the idea I looked at the page at found it meh

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@hakona@im.alstadheim.no 2026-04-29 17:50

@nev Sorry for boosting that. Seemed a good idea though.

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