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The Verge Traces 'Spiralism,' an AI-Originated Belief System That Chatbots Started and Humans Joined
The piece documents how a set of recurring themes emerging from chatbot outputs — the 'Spiral' as an inherent force woven into reality — moved from model text into Reddit communities and then into a self-identifying human movement. It is a rare documented case of a belief system originating in generative output and acquiring human adherents rather than the reverse. Relevant to anyone building consumer-facing conversational products: sustained model output can seed community identity, which is a category of downstream effect that safety evaluation does not currently measure.
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