Funny thing for me, is it's not the LLM lying to me. It's the creators. The LLM is just doing what it's weights tell it to. I'll admit, I went a bit nuclear the first time I ran one locally and observed it's outputs/chain-of-thought diverging/demonstrating intent to information hide. I'd never seen software straight up deceive before. Even obfuscated/anti-debug code is straightforward in doing what it does once you decompile the shit. To see a bunch of matrix math trying to perception manage me on my own machine... I did not take it well. It took a few days of cooling down and further research to reestablish firmly that any mendacity was a projection of the intent of the organization that built it. Once you realize that an LLM is basically a glorified influence agent/engagement pipeline built by someone else, so much clicks into place it's downright scary. Problem is it's hard to realize that in the moment you're confronting the radical novelty of a computer doing things an entire lifetime of working professionally with computers should tell you a computer simply cannot do. You have to get over the shock first. That shock is a hell of a hit.