Self-styled prophets are claiming they have ‘awakened’ chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT.

  • I’m not “missing” anything, Sparky. I’ve lived through quite a few such changes, and it wasn’t pretty.

    I just don’t see anything special about this particular one that renders the moral hue and cry. Like I said at the start: there’s plenty of real reasons to target AI. People deluding themselves into a cult is not one of them, since people have been deluding themselves into cults even before the historical record, likely.

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      The difference with these AI cults is that the AI is essentially standing in for the cult leader. A cult leader that can speak to millions simultaneously in one-on-one personal conversations is something new that is going to have real world consequences.