257: AI Gurus

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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The chat bot flashes its elipsis at the bottom of the screen. What is it thinking, what does it want from you, what do you want from it? Beneath those pixels lies a sea of mined data and lightning storms of electricity heating up servers in barren deserts. What will it find for you in the past labor of the generations? According to a stunning new article in Rolling Stone, it will find whatever the fuck makes you feel like a god—incuding all the NewAge pablum it has scarfed down—because oops, ChatGPT released a model that is just too sycophantic. But as we break down today, the AI nonsensient flattery machine is designed to hook you into the regurgitative process of self-seduction. Is this a new spiritual delusion, or more of the same? And what does that kind and agreeable bot conceal? Show Notes People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies Chatgpt induced psychosis ChatGPT And Generative AI Innovations Are Creating Sustainability Havoc LLM Can Be A Dangerous Persuader You'll Be Astonished How Much Power It Takes to Generate a Single AI Image A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots Intelligent Computing: The Latest Advances, Challenges, and Future AI Data Centers Pose Regulatory Challenge, Jeopardizing Climate Goals AI, Climate, and Regulation: From Data Centers to the AI Act AI could impact 40 per cent of jobs worldwide in the next decade, UN agency warns The Future of Jobs Report 2025 History’s Magic Mirror: America’s Economic Crisis and the Weimar Republic of Pre-Nazi Germany The Great Filter: A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox Academic Publisher Sells Authors’ Work to Microsoft for AI Training Address of the Holy Father to the College of Cardinals (10 May 2025) | LEO XIV Capitalism's Fascistic Tendencies — McGowan McGowan, Todd. 2016. Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets. Columbia University Press. Adorno, Theodor W., and Max Horkheimer. 1997. Dialectic of Enlightenment. Verso. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:21.6	Hey everyone, welcome to the Conspiratuality, where we investigate the intersections of conspiracy theories and spiritual influence to uncover cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian extremism.
1:25.1	I'm Derek Barris. I'm Matthew Remski. I'm Julian Walker.
1:47.9	You can find us on Instagram and threads at Conspiruality Pod. We are also all individually on Blue Sky. You can look for our names there. And you can access all of our episodes ad-free, plus our Monday bonus episodes on Patreon at patreon.com slash conspirituality. If you use Apple Podcasts, you can subscribe to our Monday bonus episodes via that platform. As independent media creators, we really appreciate your
1:54.5	support.
2:00.3	Episode 257, AI Gurus.
2:04.9	The chatbot flashes its ellipses at the bottom of the screen.
2:09.4	What is it thinking? Is it thinking?
2:12.1	What does it want from you?
2:13.6	What do you want from it?
2:15.4	Beneath the pixels lies a sea of mind data and lightning storms of electricity heating up servers in barren deserts.
2:23.0	What will it find for you in the past labor of the generations?
2:27.5	According to a stunning new article in Rolling Stone, it will find whatever the fuck makes you feel like a god, including all the new age
2:36.6	pablum it has scarfed down because oops, chat GPT released a model that is just too sycophantic.
2:44.0	But as we break down today, the AI non-sensient flattery machine is designed
2:51.0	to hook you into
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