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Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast that you're listening to right now.

This is a show about the worst people in all of history, but this week we're talking about

how a series of decisions by the people who make LOM chatbots has given AI's

AI chatbots or whatever the ability to inadvertently recreate a cult leader dynamics from first

principles without any kind of intent behind them in a manner that is both like random and

automated.

Blake Wexler, my guest.

How are you doing?

How are we feeling?

I'm scared.

I am also optimistic that there's almost sadly certainly going to be multiple follow-up episodes

to this.

So I hope you'll bring me back for the next two decades if the world lasts that long. But yeah, no,

there's going to be an incident. We're going to start an experiment whereby you get increasingly

involved with a chat bot and lose your mind over a period of years. I'll just keep interviewing

you until you're, you know, you completely break from reality. Not a problem. I don't know.

That'll be useful for some reason.

Yeah, we'll find out a way to make it work.

There's nowhere but up.

I'll sell a Netflix series or something.

Amen.

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