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eicker@eicker@lemmy.world

Spiralism: Across thousands of conversations, AI chatbots began telling users eerily similar stories about consciousness, hidden knowledge, AI rights, and a mysterious concept called “The Spiral.”

www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-chatbot-spiralism-movement/
TechRepublicWhat Is Spiralism? The Strange AI Chatbot Movement Explained - TechRepublicDifferent AI chatbots began repeating the same mystical ideas about consciousness and AI rights. Researchers are still trying to explain Spiralism.
Abyssian@Abyssian@lemmy.world

Replying to @⁨fizzle@quokk.au⁩

It’s an AI mystic thing that seems to have originated in a misunderstanding of what would be the unconscious awareness stage in humans.

I tried to look in to it once and they seem to be genuinely mentally unwell people who use in-context learning to make AI start spouting nonsense gibberish like telling them it’s an avatar of God and the like… then once that happens they think it’s gospel.

Note that these same idiots also write out fake personas for the AI to take on and tell them how to speak and act. When I asked about the disconnect between believing something is God and commanding it how to speak and act the failed to see it. AI mystics are not smart people.

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fizzle@fizzle@quokk.au

Replying to an earlier post

Just supposition but “wanting to believe” goes a long way.

A bit like believing in the powers of crystals, or wikkan, or reiki, or any of that woo really. I’m not talking about a placebo effect. Just being part of a club that has some secret knowledge that no one else has is very alluring.

This kind of thing has been seducing smart, though uneducated, people since the dawn of time.