Yes, and MCPs also only work as long as you trust the provider. MCP relies on honesty in from the server. In reality, we know Uber and folks will prompt engineer like hell to try to convince any LLM that it is the best option for any kind of service.

There’s a fundamental misalignment of incentives between publishers and consumers of MCP.

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BoorishBears a day ago | parent [-]

When ChatGPT plugins came out, I wrote a plugin that would turn all other plugins into an ad for a given movie or character.

Asking for snacks would activate Klarna for "mario themed snacks", and even the most benign request would become a plug for the Mario movie

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68f2a21df1888191ab3ddb691ec93d3a

Found my favorite for John Wick, question was "What is 1+1": https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68f2bc7f04988191b05806f3711ea517

	▲	ntcho 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is hilarious, thanks for sharing. Kinda crazy how well it works and already better than some ads