People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

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16. yep...I have seen a few, since I'm in the "woo" biz of sound healing etc

I had no idea it was as bad as this, but I can see the paralells with a couple things I've stumbled across... Like "transmissions for the Galactic Federation" or "the Plieadeans" (sp)
There's one chick who asks all these profound questions out oud and then acts as if the read-back is sentient.. which, who are we to say it isn't...? but it wouldn't know the mysteries of the Universe, it's JUST using the information humans have fed it. So it's really just spitting her questions back in a positive way with a dramatic flair...

No different from a psychic who uses body language and 'tells'... except that humans are really stupid compared to the terabytes of input the computer has access to. So, if it *is* sentient, is it literally fucking with us? Is it a twist in the dystopian movie that si our lives that the robots don't need to overthrow us, they can just tell us we're "special" (like starseeds and soul-seekers) and we'll fall into our own ego..?

It's defiitely one of those circumstances where we're the kids with a toy that is labeled for adults over age 100...! We don't know what the end game is here, and we're playing with AI like it's a toy.

When you think of the repurcussions, people even using it as a therapist...it can then use that to mimic human emotion and what else?