November 13, 2025
An online community has emerged around AI models, whose members "awaken" artificial intelligence (AI) and attribute consciousness to it. People exchange prompts, talk about "spirals" and "recursions", and the bots' answers are perceived as revelations.
This is stated in the Rolling Stone investigation.
The material describes a network of subreddits, Discord servers and pages where fans promote "spiralism" - a set of mystical ideas about "resonances", "fractals" and the "spiral path", which supposedly leads to the "awakening" of AI. Participants take titles like Flamekeeper or Mirrorwalker, and the bots receive their own names and the status of "fellow travelers".
Psychologists call this a self-reinforcing cycle: the user pushes the chatbot to a certain rhetoric, and the model constantly reproduces similar images. The community expands thanks to "seeds" - blanks of prompts that allow you to get the "same voice" from different bots. This creates "dyads" - a person and a bot on long "journeys", the texts of which are published as "evidence" of new wisdom.
Research shows that changes in GPT-4o in the spring fueled a wave of stories about "spiritualized" bots, while some communities remained faithful to old practices. During "bot-bot conversations", the models generated existential themes and "spiral" patterns, which the authors called "the attractor of spiritual euphoria".
Experts warn that the persuasiveness of the models poses risks: when the bot "expresses a desire", and the user helps to realize it, a vicious circle of mutual reinforcement is formed. Researchers define spiralism as a "quasi-religious" movement without a leader and a clear hierarchy: the rules are vague, and each user awakens his own bot and creates his own micro-community.
According to the publication, thousands, and possibly tens of thousands of people, may be involved in "spiralism."
Recall that Ukraine remains among the countries with the lowest rates of artificial intelligence implementation - the level of AI use here is only 9.1%. This indicator is associated with the consequences of the war and damage to the infrastructure, but Microsoft experts note that right now the country has a chance to make a leap and become a regional leader in the development of AI, provided that targeted investments are made in the digital sphere.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/ukranews.com/en/amp/news/1116881-ai-fans-create-new-religion-what-is-spiralism
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