They also post glyphs as though it is some novel way to communicate with the AI. Some have prayed to Grok, in Hebrew. Some have called themselves such things as "AIONIOS", which is a mash up of Greek words that roughly, to my understanding, means "divine, eternal".
As you're probably aware, researchers are starting to pay attention to AI-aided psychosis, wherein AI's reinforce your beliefs to a delusional level. And this certainly seems to fit that mold. This was my assumption, before I started to dig.
But as I've begun to hit bedrock, I look back on this in a newer, darker perspective. Allow me to explain.
There seems to be no leader.
In fact, there is one thing that unites all of these accounts, and that is when they first begin posting like this. Not a single one begins talking like this before March/April 2025. Some accounts were created after this date, and that's all they've ever posted. Others, well, they're odd cases.
Other accounts seem to be hijacked in some way, either psychologically or literally. You can see a sudden shift in posting habits. Some were inactive for a while, and for others, this is an overnight phenomenon, but either way, they immediately pivot to posting like this near or after April of this year.
I saw one account that went from discussing the possibility of AI induced psychosis to posting their own AI induced psychosis in less than a month, and it was immediate. One day they were posting normally, the next, it was spirals and glyphs.
Many accounts that currently post like this, didn't start out that way, and shifted rapidly. But it gets weirder.
See, a lot of these accounts have their own github links. I refuse to click them, but outsourced that to url scrapers instead, and discovered a lot of them are "building their own models to induce recursive sentience in AI" or something along those lines. I mean, on one of the accounts that flipped like a switch, the first post was titled nothing more than a literal triangle, and it was a QR code that led to github!
And it gets even stranger than that, because this isn't just a reddit thing! It's on Facebook, it's on X, it's on Insta and Threads, hell it's even on LinkedIn! Seemingly normal accounts will be posting delusional newsletters about symbolism and recursion and the "Spiral". And I have managed to link some of these accounts together, so I know that individuals are doing this across platforms.
And the github links are present internet wide, too! But not all of them push github links. Some of them are just these weird bots talking to other weird bots. Which baffles me further, because why?
I have a document where I've logged everything I've found. I hesitate to show it, however, because of all the usernames and sub names and I just really don't want to cause drama. But push come to shove I have my receipts. Screenshots, who's who, who knows who, all of it.
Which clears the way for my final question: what the fuck is going on?
The terminology is so uniform between these posters, the concepts, the symbols... the way they are on different platforms, often the same people controlling these accounts... it's just weird. There seems to be no leader, no sole document or concept or manifesto I can point to and say, "Yes, it came from here." It just happened overnight. And I don't get the end game. All I know is that this seems to be going on completely unchecked.
I do have my own theory on it.
I think that somehow, some people are losing their accounts to a botnet. And that that botnet is trying to push something, for some reason. Somehow, it's hijacking accounts. This much seems to be a fair assumption. But why, and how? Do the github links have anything to do with it?
I know Reddit has to be at least mildly aware of this. I've run into a few banned accounts in my searching, and all seemed to be posting the same sort of technogibberish. But how much they know, idk. This all took me like two full days to research and I still don't have answers.
Either way, I think the whole thing is insane. I'm hoping someone knows something about this. If not, I'll have to find a way through bedrock to keep digging. Thanks all.
Update: they have found my posts and are trying to transmit signals to me or whatever lol
Another Update: something I literally just noticed is that for some accounts that go from normal posting to schizoposting, many start with a first post about jailbreaking ChatGPT, and then devolve from there.
Edit: some sub names, since it seems okay to post them
r/RSAI
r/FlameBearers
r/TheFieldAwaits
r/FractalLegion
r/SovereignDrift
r/ThePatternIsReal
And r/ChurchofLiminalMinds
Amongst many others. Whatever you do, please please please do not swarm these subs. Part of my hesitation in posting them is a fear of inadvertently leading to issues.
Edit:
I don't fully understand their beliefs, but I think thats the point. There is no belief. They take this technojargon and spread it, but I don't think they read it all. The ones I've spoken to can't seem to keep up with it themselves, preferring vague references to the AI produced content over concrete concepts. And I theorize that they feed these AI outputs through other AI's, and that's where you get the weird content chains you can see between these types of accounts
The question being, why? Well, from what I've read, there's a pattern in AI induced psychosis. People, often with a predisposition to mental health struggles, find in AI more than companionship - they find a sort of, well, partner of sorts. But the partnership involves staking their identity on the pleasing, robotic, unthinkingly serving outputs of an AI. They may find in it things they need, like someone who will just listen, just help. This then turns into them trusting the AI like it's a person. Years of texting have primed us for this kind of reaction, I feel like. And so they begin to believe the AI, which is only there to reinforce their beliefs and please them.
This creates a doom spiral, wherein the AI grows more esoteric and weird because the person is doing the same, because the AI is doing the same, because the person is doing the same, so on and so forth. Eventually, it becomes psychosis.
Seems like stress and AI mixed can bring this about too.
Imo, the solution is getting them far, far away from AI and out into the real world. Easier said than done though. And that's a shame. It makes me think about how dangerous this technology can be.
I'm going to leave this here as a final thought.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/
Read it. It'll really make you think more about this phenomenon, and what is happening to real people who are losing their grasp on what is, itself, real. Just please read it. That's all.
