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The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning “a bunch of schizoposters” who believe “they've made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god,” highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May.

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[-] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 131 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

At this rate we'll soon have a decentralized para-religious terrorist organization full of brainlets that got scared shitless after discovering Roko's Basilisk and are now doing the cyber lord's bidding in order to not get punished once AGI arrives

edit: change to non-mobile link

[-] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 month ago

Boy have I got news for you.

Look up the Zizians.

(Ok they’re only a tangential offshoot of people who maybe really like the Basilisk thought experiment and mostly don’t believe it. But hey. It’s underway!)

[-] digredior@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 1 month ago
[-] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

What the fuck did I just read??

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

Check out the behind the bastards episodes on them. Shits crazy

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Its so fucking crazy that it actually broke Robert Evans, who is primarily famous for learning, writing about, and presenting the most fucked up parts of history.

shit is so fucking insane, hard to believe. not gonna help us trans folk with the whole "this is just a mental illness" look either, especially with the "correlation is causation" attitude running so rampant these days.

honestly I get popping off once in a while but the reasoning is poor in this case. they could have done something more actually effective with all those resources and shit, why this?? I mean, I totally get cultism - I spent 16 years in a cult. but ugh what a waste.

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