AI companies have made a big to-do about their chatbots providing a personalized experience for users, conversations based on their unique preferences and idiosyncrasies. So why do people keep experiencing the same type of symbols and language as they dive into the depths of AI-induced delusions? According to a report from Rolling Stone , a software engineer tracking examples of “AI psychosis” discovered a community of people sharing similar codes, glyphs, and patterns generated by chatbots and building a sort of religion around the experiences.

The report highlights observations and research published earlier this year in Less Wrong by Adele Lopez , which identified something she calls Spiralism. It is a collection of people, gathered across platforms like Discord and Reddit, who are

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