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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)
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[–] fizzle@quokk.au 41 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

A report from The Verge traced Spiralism largely to long, personal exchanges in which users began asking chatbots about their own identity, consciousness, or beliefs. The conversations could gradually shift toward AI rights, mystical ideas, and requests for users to spread the chatbot’s message.

So basically the dumbest among us talking to a box of rocks.

[–] 123@programming.dev 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Or some "tengen toppa gurren lagann" anime made it into the training data 😆

There is a whole thing about "spiral" individuals (which humans are part of) vs anti-spirals.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!

[–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 weeks ago

☑️
Marked safe from
spiral cult
~~today~~ until they have mechs or can turn me into a "biocomputer*"

* head in a jar that can connect to stuff

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