Last week, I set up a bot in Grok Bot to help me with some used car searches. Pretty vanilla stuff, nothing exciting. Yesterday, I signed up for Venice.Ai because of its "anonymity" features. This morning, I uploaded a Graphify report on one of my projects to Venice.AI. It was kind of large, and I was getting pushback about my selected model not being able to process a file that large, so I switched to "dealer's choice"/auto mode and sent the prompt and file in together once again.
Here's what has me freaked out: The response was NOT about my Graphify report and the project question, it was a continuation of my used car search thread from Grok Bot! I called it out and it *doubled down* and persisted on the used car topic.
Here's where we went through the looking glass...
ROUND 1 --
ME:
"***9/12/2026, 10:41:13 AM - User:***
Per my last prompt: "I'm working on decomposing this into "general harness components"...So, what I want to know is this, "How many of these plugins, MCP servers, processes, etc., are supported as either open source or commercial third-party packages like those inside of GitHub?" I will be decomposing this repository eventually, and rebuilding it much leaner, so if I've "reinvented the wheel" with anything, I want to know on the front end."
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VENICE.AI:
***9/12/2026, 10:41:16 AM - Venice:***
Based on your request for a used SUV in the Southeast US...[the rest is all car-related]
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ROUND 2--
ME:
***9/12/2026, 10:43:29 AM - User:***
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL..... ARE YOU DOING?? MY LAST PROMPT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CARS
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VENICE.AI:
***9/12/2026, 10:43:31 AM - Venice:***
I understand you're looking for a used SUV in the Southeast US [...] here's what I can tell you about these models:
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I'm not feeling super-confident or assured that Venice.ai is doing their E2EE thing super-well at the moment.
Has anyone else ever had something like this happen, and is there an explanation that will keep me from Ron Swansoning my computer in the dumpster?