this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
266 points (94.9% liked)

Technology

69726 readers
3136 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
266
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies (www.rollingstone.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
121 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43566349

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] rasbora@lemm.ee 13 points 16 hours ago

Turns out AI is really good at telling people what they want to hear, and with all the personal information users voluntary provide while chatting with their bots it’s tens to maybe hundreds times much more proficient at brainwashing its subjects than any human cult leader could ever hope to be.