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AI Hallucinations: Technology or the Mind?

2025-06-16

Internet ethnographer Katherine Dee delves into how AI, specifically ChatGPT, seems to amplify delusional thinking. The article argues that such incidents aren't unique to AI, but a recurring cultural response to new communication technologies. From Morse code to television, the internet, and TikTok, humans consistently link new tech with the paranormal, seeking meaning within technologically-enabled individualized realities. The author posits that ChatGPT isn't the primary culprit, but rather caters to a centuries-old belief – that consciousness can reshape reality through will and word – a belief intensified by the internet and made more tangible by AI.

From Online Extremist Philosophy to Real-World Terror: Efilism and the Palm Springs Bombing

2025-05-18

This article examines the Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing, where the perpetrator, Guy Edward Bartkus, was influenced by the extremist philosophy of Efilism. Efilism posits that all life is suffering and should be ended. The article traces Efilism's online origins, from Benatar's antinatalism to Mosher's Efilism, and its connection to Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza. Bartkus's actions weren't solely driven by ideology; his friend's suicide deeply impacted him, and Efilism served more as a vocabulary for his despair. The article explores the spread of online extremist ideologies and the complex causes of individual extremism, prompting reflection on the responsibilities of online platforms.