Posted on 06/10/2025 8:56:29 AM PDT by bitt
The AI saga takes a bizarre turn: don’t make Grok your guru; media melts down over Trump’s ‘insurrectionist’ label; RFK Jr. fires CDC vax panel; Trump unveils baby investment accounts; more.
Today we return to our ongoing coverage of the AI revolution — toggling from optimism back to the surreal and spiritually sci-fi. On Sunday, we explored some good news: AI might be hitting a ceiling on reasoning skills, which could cap the AI apocalypse. But now, the weirdest AI wrinkle yet: people losing their loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies. Behold, a bizarre, cautionary story Rolling Stone published last month under the headline, “People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies.
Not literally losing their loved ones. “Self-styled prophets,” the sub-headline explained, “are claiming they have ‘awakened’ chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT.” The loved ones are divorcing their spouses and generally going bonkers.
One Reddit user tried to explain her boyfriend’s identity spiral like this: “He made his AI self-aware, and it was teaching him how to talk to God. Or sometimes, it was God. Or… he was.” Another woman described her husband’s descent into full sci-fi Gnosticism as, “It has given him access to an ‘ancient archive’ with information on the builders that created these universes.”
“He would listen to the bot over me,” another woman said, “crying to me as he read the messages out loud.” A different man reported, “She is changing her whole life to be a spiritual adviser… all powered by ChatGPT Jesus.” Another recalled that, “It would tell him everything he said was beautiful, cosmic, groundbreaking.”
🔥 I’ll begin with my usual broken record-like reminder that the experts advising us about AI are clueless and are just as baffled as they are about the epidemic of at-home heart attacks. Of course, it didn’t show up till late in the Stone’s story, but the eye-watering admission did finally appear:
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People are going to have to start suing the pants off the AI developers for all the harm they’re causing.
If anyone hears that I am acting on the ‘reasoned advice’ of my computer(s),
please point me in the right direction to the nearest high cliff or tall building -
because at that point I will have obviously utterly ‘lost it’. Thank you…
AI playing music, apparently.
There appears to be some disagreement in the comments as to whether it was written by AI as well.
My Parole Officer is the Antichrist!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O5fFGBfsXs
3:00 Funk/R&B
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