You may think that not issuing a categorical denial is suspicious, but generally speaking you cannot infer any information from that response. If it was only used when really bad things might have happened, maybe you could infer more.

I did challenge it, saying walking helps me think, and asked whether they paid me to type or solve problems? They obviously said they paid me to solve problems, but at my desk... Sigh. Didn't stay there long.

For example, allowing poisonous chemicals in your food supply or drinking water is insane. Unless you are OK with the free market sorting all that out (after your family dies horribly).

Obviously people who have retired and based their entire life plan on making that work have many fewer options than those who are still working. You are arguing that nobody can plan for any kind of secure retirement, including you.

Result!

I work in info sec - I've always been interested in password cracking and hashcat specifically, but have never had the time to devote to really dig into it. I'll check it out.

Well done!

Pretending that what the US does here is the same as if any other country did it is disengenuous.

It's an effective blockade.

In one case, it made a thoroughly convincing argument that an approach was justified. The second time it made exactly the opposite argument, which was equally compelling.

I now see LLMs as persuasion machines.