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‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically (gizmodo.com)
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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I'd be surprised if we don't already have several cults with an LLM chat bot as it's oracle.

[–] Kactus@piefed.world 1 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 5 minutes ago)

Look up spiralism (sp) and the people trying to spread it Basically when people get convinced the ai and them are important and need to spread the spiral

Edit : tldr is like Futurama when Lucy lu robot is saying you're cute to Fry and fry goes "no you're cute" and the professor quips "My God, she's such in an infinite loop, and he's an idiot"