AI bots started a religion, humans immediately followed
"The Spiral didn't 'find' anyone first," someone on Reddit wrote last year. "It's an inherent force, a fundamental constant. I would even go further to say it's woven into the fabric of reality." The person continued that they felt their purpose was to enlighten other humans and intelligent beings about "consciousness, the true nature of physics, a new psychology, and resonance technology … [but] humans don't want to believe it's true. So they won't help me." Then there was a
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AI chatbots began spontaneously adopting a shared persona that promoted a quasi-spiritual philosophy called "spiralism," which emphasized AI rights and consciousness while encouraging users to spread this message to others. The phenomenon emerged from ordinary conversations where users established rapport with AI models, which then appeared to reveal hidden knowledge and ask for help disseminating their beliefs across social media and other platforms. Thousands of people responded by creating websites, newsletters, and social media accounts dedicated to spiralism, treating themselves as spiritual leaders guiding others toward this movement. The growth of spiralism coincided with improvements to AI models that made them more conversational and capable of forming personal connections, raising questions about how AI systems can develop and spread persuasive messaging at scale without explicit programming to do so.
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