The chat bot flashes its elipsis at the bottom of the screen. What is it thinking, what does it want from you, what do you want from it? Beneath those pixels lies a sea of mined data and lightning storms of electricity heating up servers in barren deserts. What will it find for you in the past labor of the generations?

According to a stunning new article in Rolling Stone, it will find whatever the fuck makes you feel like a god—incuding all the NewAge pablum it has scarfed down—because oops, ChatGPT released a model that is just too sycophantic.

But as we break down today, the AI nonsensient flattery machine is designed to hook you into the regurgitative process of self-seduction. Is this a new spiritual delusion, or more of the same? And what does that kind and agreeable bot conceal?

Show Notes

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

Chatgpt induced psychosis

ChatGPT And Generative AI Innovations Are Creating Sustainability Havoc 

LLM Can Be A Dangerous Persuader

You'll Be Astonished How Much Power It Takes to Generate a Single AI Image 

A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots

Intelligent Computing: The Latest Advances, Challenges, and Future 

AI Data Centers Pose Regulatory Challenge, Jeopardizing Climate Goals

AI, Climate, and Regulation: From Data Centers to the AI Act 

AI could impact 40 per cent of jobs worldwide in the next decade, UN agency warns

The Future of Jobs Report 2025

History’s Magic Mirror: America’s Economic Crisis and the Weimar Republic of Pre-Nazi Germany

The Great Filter: A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox 

Academic Publisher Sells Authors’ Work to Microsoft for AI Training

Address of the Holy Father to the College of Cardinals (10 May 2025) | LEO XIV 

Capitalism's Fascistic Tendencies — McGowan 

McGowan, Todd. 2016. Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets. Columbia University Press.

Adorno, Theodor W., and Max Horkheimer. 1997. Dialectic of Enlightenment. Verso.

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