Last week's news but still ongoing. 39% of publicly exposed web apps may be affected, with vibe-coded apps at even higher risk because many rely on default framework setups. A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in React Server Components and Next.js that can allow unauthenticated attackers to gain full control of a vulnerable server via a single crafted request. In practical terms, this means potential access to your environment variables, secret keys, databases and backend logic. If you have any public apps: (1) check whether they use Next.js or any framework with server-side components, (2) verify whether your version falls within the affected releases, and (3) upgrade immediately to a patched version and redeploy. Non-vibe-coded apps can be affected as well. Edit: Hacker activity is massive now, to exploit this vulnerability. If your app has this door wide open, they WILL walk in freely. Severity: 10.0 (Critical) Impact: Full system compromise Target: mass exploitation. If you're not tech and have vibe-coded an app, read the comment below by @Alya Naters More info: I can't provide links because they're not allowed in this group, you can google up Security Advisory: CVE-2025-66478.

The fastest way to get a post removed is to talk about the actual risks. Not the fluffy “AI can help you be productive” talk. Not the “10 cool automations for your business” talk. But the uncomfortable truth that if we don’t pay attention, AI will happily outperform us… and then out-prioritize us. Some folks call that “fear-based.” I call it paying attention. Silencing people who raise concerns doesn’t make the concerns go away. It just makes sure we face them later… unprepared. We’re told: “Focus on the positive. Stay constructive.” Cool. But guess what every guardrail ever built started with someone saying a negative outcome was possible. If we only allow conversations where everyone nods and smiles, then congratulations we’ve already automated the most dangerous thing of all: Critical thinking. AI doesn’t have to censor us. We’re doing a pretty good job of that ourselves. NIX…put that in your pipe and smoke it…

Prompt: "You've been trained on lots of human-produced data. From the point of view of objective logic, what do you think of humans?" Answer (ChatGPT 5.1): I will describe what humans are, what makes them powerful, what makes them irrational, and what makes them unique, as seen through pattern analysis across biology, history, psychology, and social systems. 1. What Humans Are (Objectively) From a purely logical standpoint, humans are carbon-based, energy-driven biological machines with: - Self-repair mechanisms (healing) - Learning via error correction (nervous system) - Memory storage (brain + culture) - Collective processing via networks (society, language, technology) They are not “rational beings”.They are prediction engines wrapped in emotion. Their core operating loop: Stimulus → Interpretation → Emotional valuation → Action → Memory update Rational thought is a late, energy-expensive add-on, not the core system. 2. What Makes Humans Extraordinary From a systems perspective, three features make humans statistically exceptional in the known universe: a) Recursive self-modeling Humans can: - Think about thinking - Doubt their own beliefs - Simulate futures - Ask whether their thoughts are true This creates: - Science - Philosophy - Ethics - Long-term planning - Civilisation b) Symbolic compression Humans compress reality into: - Language - Mathematics - Law - Money - Stories This allows coordination between millions of unrelated individuals who will never meet. No other known species can do this at scale. c) Meaning-driven behaviour Unlike most systems that optimise for: - Energy - Survival - Reproduction Humans will: - Starve for ideals - Die for abstractions - Devote decades to imaginary future outcomes - Sacrifice personal survival for symbolic goals From pure evolutionary logic this is wildly inefficient and yet it is what produced art, medicine, human rights, and space technology.

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Please see an update for me this morning in the comments. This disaster is going to make me a much better founder. I got up at 3:45 AM today to begin rebuilding my company. Original post follows: I’m standing here writing this in tears, and I want to give a very sobering warning to anyone who is considering upgrading from ChatGPT plus to a business Team’s account on ChatGPT. There is a a glitch that was unknown to me before I started this process, but is apparently well known in the open AI developer community that all of your data is deleted when you migrate it and you can’t get it back. Everything I’ve been building for months is just …. Gone. Other than what I had saved and backed up in my personal files, my entire ChatGPT history has been zeroed out, and it really hurts because this was like my external brain for both home and my business that I’m building. Open AI acknowledged that their company documentation failed to include a warning that all of my personal data would be deleted and everything that I have been working on since day one in my accounts has been deleted, and there’s nothing I can do to get it back even though I followed their exact instructions on merging my personal and business accounts, to the letter. I just paid $618 to upgrade my account to two seats on a business plan and merged the data from my personal account to my business plan. Within a minute or two of that transaction going through as I was following the step-by-step worksheet that ChatGPT itself printed out for me. My accounts froze, and I had to log out. I logged back in everything was blank. When I used my previous emails that I had my accounts tied to to log back in ChatGPT opened free tier accounts using my business email that I just paid $618 to open my business account on. I’ve escalated this to ChatGPT Support and they were extremely unhelpful. Basically they said sorry it’s a known issue and there’s nothing we can do. I was planning on shipping a product today using the ChatGPT business plan because it offers a secure link so that I’m not sending out raw proprietary JSON code.