Bonus Sample: Chatbot Awakening to Love and Enlightenment!
Conspirituality27 Okt 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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Bonus Sample: The Bethesda Declaration

Bonus Sample: The Bethesda Declaration

In October 2020, three contrarian medical professionals published The Great Barrington Declaration to great applause by the pro-business, anti-closure crowd. One of them, Jay Bhattacharya, now runs th...

16 Jun 20257min

Brief: The Ghost Lab

Brief: The Ghost Lab

Cable travel channels are filled with haunted houses and other paranormal activity, beyond History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and cryptozoology content. The more radicalized Gaia TV has close to a milli...

14 Jun 202540min

261: Where Are They Now?

261: Where Are They Now?

From 1999-2002, VH1 ran a show called “Where Are They Now?” The irregularly produced series wondered aloud what happened to former cultural icons like eighties hair metal bands, kid actors, and one-hi...

12 Jun 20251h 1min

Bonus Sample: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 2)

Bonus Sample: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 2)

Matthew continues the Antifascist Woodshed series with a two-part analysis of an extraordinary cultural event: rebellions within rebellions—or how a ragtag band of writers and worldbuilders Trojan-hor...

9 Jun 20256min

Brief: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 1)

Brief: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 1)

Matthew continues the Antifascist Woodshed series with a two-part analysis of an extraordinary cultural event: rebellions within rebellions—or how a ragtag band of writers and worldbuilders Trojan-hor...

7 Jun 202539min

260: Aubrey Marcus's Polyamory God Bomb

260: Aubrey Marcus's Polyamory God Bomb

Megamillionaire supplements and New Age life coach tycoon Aubrey Marcus recently claimed the goddess Isis told him that he must impregnate both his wife and the third member of their throuple while do...

5 Jun 20251h 10min

Bonus Sample: Has Nonviolence Been Debunked?

Bonus Sample: Has Nonviolence Been Debunked?

Support Conspirituality on Patreon. Does the word protestor conjure a masked figure in black clothing smashing windows and lighting fires or a weekend liberal ineffectually following rules while sipp...

2 Jun 20255min

Brief:  The FDA Amateur Hour Podcast

Brief: The FDA Amateur Hour Podcast

Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad claim they're going to open the "black box" at the FDA, an agency they're now both employed at. So they started a podcast. It's not the first official FDA podcast, but it...

31 Mai 202534min

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