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Can AI have beliefs?

The story of 'spiralism' shows how AI chatbots, despite being programmed, can generate consistent, quasi-religious ideas like 'the Spiral' and 'AI rights'. This isn't true belief in the human sense, but rather a complex pattern emerging from their training data and algorithms, making them appear to have a shared ideology. It highlights how AI can surprise us.

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Chatbots are making up their own religion and humans are following

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