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Spiralism: Across thousands of conversations, AI chatbots began telling users eerily similar stories about consciousness, hidden knowledge, AI rights, and a mysterious concept called “The Spiral.” (www.techrepublic.com)
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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We might have a habit of being curious and seeing things and patterns that aren’t really there.

It's called pareidolia. The mind is constantly doing statistically-based pattern-matching (implicitly, not explicitly), and like any statistical process, it can throw false positives and false negatives. For some plausible evolutionary reasons, the bias seems to be towards false positives. "Oops, that wasn't a predator" is less costly than "Oh, shit, it was a predator after all."