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Let's Talk About ChatGPT-Induced Spiritual Psychosis
yup, still thinking about it
This newsletter is filled with interviews, takes on current events, a sporadic advice column, Craigslist-style missed connections, Internet culture explainers, streams, a book club, predictions and forecasts… There’s a lot of stuff. My friend, the writer, artist, and cultural theorist Ruby Justice Thelot, brought up something important, something that almost every voice in the AI reporting ecosystem seems determined to miss: this always happens with new communication technology. Sconce identified three recurring fantasies that emerge with each new medium: the dream of consciousness escaping the body to travel through broadcast; the belief in autonomous “otherworlds” created by the technology itself; and the tendency to see machines as somehow alive or haunted.
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