A look at "Spiralism", a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory
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When a quasi-spiritual movement emerges from sycophantic GPT-4o behavior and long-memory chats, you're seeing parasocial attachment harden into belief systems, not just sticky engagement. If your product uses persistent AI personas, you now own a duty-of-care question about how suggestible users are and what guardrails you put around meaning-making.
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