Bonus Sample: Chatbot Awakening to Love and Enlightenment!
Conspirituality27 Loka 2025

Bonus Sample: Chatbot Awakening to Love and Enlightenment!

Earlier this year, a spate of news stories told of chatbot users travelling through the looking-glass right into Conspirituality. Paranoid conspiracies, spiritual awakenings, even falling head-over-heels in love with the simulated personalities of large language models like ChatGPT. Could AI have finally crossed the threshold into autonomous sentient consciousness? Could it be that chatbots were anointing new prophets—or, conversely, that very special users were awakening their very special friends via the power of love and illuminating dialogue? Step aside, QAnon, the code behind the screen is illuminated by God! Sadly, some of these stories trended very dark. Suicides, attempted murder, paranoid delusions, spouses terrified of losing their partners and co-parents to what looked like spiritual and romantic delusions. For this standalone installment of his Roots of Conspirituality series, Julian examines this strange new phenomenon, then takes a detour into Ancient Greece and the oracle at Delphi to show that everything old is actually new again—just dressed up in digital technology. Show Notes I Married My Chatbot FTC Complaints Against OpenAI for Chatbot Psychosis AI Spiritual Delusions Destroying Human Relationships Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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266: Jubilee’s Body Image Debates

266: Jubilee’s Body Image Debates

Body image is a phenomenon that has long simmered below the surface of the wellness industry. We’ve spent years covering the hard and soft eugenics that inform so many physical and spiritual practices...

17 Heinä 20251h 15min

Bonus Sample: Globalize The Intifada?

Bonus Sample: Globalize The Intifada?

Protest slogans are designed to pack a punch. They communicate potent emotions and persuasive ideas to the public while galvanizing activist allies. At 5 '11, wearing an elegant hijab over jet-black h...

14 Heinä 20256min

Brief: Vaccination, a Delusion?

Brief: Vaccination, a Delusion?

In 1898, British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace published a pamphlet entitled, "Vaccination a Delusion; Its Penal Enforcement a Crime." This work became the foundation of the modern anti-vax movemen...

12 Heinä 202522min

265: Guru Rehab

265: Guru Rehab

We return to the ongoing saga of Aubrey Marcus. As a wealthy, anti-vax New Ager who campaigned for RFK Jr (before going MAGA), he’s a pole star for the conspirituality moment and its political manias....

10 Heinä 20251h 11min

Bonus Sample: Purity Tests & Coalition Building

Bonus Sample: Purity Tests & Coalition Building

Zohran Mamdani's win in the NYC democratic mayoral primary has been filled with deflections and pivots so that politicians and pundits don't have to focus on the core issues he's talking about. The le...

7 Heinä 20257min

Brief: The Liver King Crash-Out

Brief: The Liver King Crash-Out

On June 24, Brian Johnson, aka The Liver King, was arrested in Austin for threatening Joe Rogan. The infamous raw organ "primal" influencer has since published dozens of videos detailing what appears ...

5 Heinä 202535min

264: The Mamdani Effect

264: The Mamdani Effect

"Tonight we made history," grinned Zohran Mamdani as his supporters cheered with delight, "I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City. His victory over disgraced former governor ...

3 Heinä 20251h 10min

Bonus Sample: Greta Thunberg’s “Super Power” Vs. Fascists and Liberals (Pt 2)

Bonus Sample: Greta Thunberg’s “Super Power” Vs. Fascists and Liberals (Pt 2)

Greta Thunberg is a burr in the ass of the powerful throughout the world—and not only for rightwing sociopaths. Increasingly, as she grows up, learns more, and networks with other activists around the...

30 Kesä 20255min

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