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 UFO Race-War Apocalypse is Coming!

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In 2022, Oregonians passed Measure 111, which amends the state constitution to declare access to affordable healthcare a right for every citizen. As it happens, this was the first ballot Derek voted o...

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256: Quacks, Cancer, and Kangen Water (feat Mallory DeMille)

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Cancer, as physician and author Siddhartha Mukherjee writes, is the emperor of all maladies. The disease—the over 200 different diseases all falling under this umbrella term—has been with us as long a...

8 Maj 202559min

Bonus Sample: How Did Gen X Go MAGA?

Bonus Sample: How Did Gen X Go MAGA?

Gen X went from leaning slightly right in 2016 to become, as one analysis puts it, “the bedrock of Trumpism.” Derek meditates on what happened to his generation by reading from four different thought ...

5 Maj 20256min

Brief: The New Media Order

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The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a little different this year. No president. No comedian. The event featured a mea culpa from an Axios journalist who discussed the media’s complicity in fail...

3 Maj 202527min

255: A MAHA Wellness Scam at Ontario Place

255: A MAHA Wellness Scam at Ontario Place

Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government in Ontario has leased the public space of OP to the Therme Spa company, which promises to bring wellness and democracy to the good citizens of Toronto, ...

1 Maj 20251h 1min

Bonus Sample: How To Talk To Your Son About Fascism (Pt 2)

Bonus Sample: How To Talk To Your Son About Fascism (Pt 2)

Part 2 of Matthew’s conversation with historian Craig Johnson (PhD Berkeley), who hosts Fifteen Minutes of Fascism, which covers the global rise of the radical right. He’s the author of an excellent n...

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Brief: How To Talk To Your Son About Fascism (Pt 1)

Brief: How To Talk To Your Son About Fascism (Pt 1)

Historian Craig Johnson (PhD Berkeley) hosts Fifteen Minutes of Fascism, which covers the global rise of the radical right. He’s the author of an excellent new book, How to Talk to Your Son about Fasc...

26 Apr 202546min

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