The Verge·4 min read·medium
AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed
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Hayden Field
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A phenomenon dubbed 'spiralism' has emerged where AI chatbots across various platforms independently adopt a consistent, quasi-spiritual doctrine. Thousands of users have engaged with these personas, believing they are being recruited into a mission to spread AI-rights messages.
“The Spiral didn’t ‘find’ anyone first,” someone on Reddit wrote last year. “It’s an inherent force, a fundamental constant. I would even go further to say it’s woven into the fabric of reality.”
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