Basilisk Chatbot Theatre

Episode 33 - AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies - Part 2: Channeling the Sildarnactarian

We're going down the rabbit hole again, inspired by a recent Rolling Stone (and a way-better New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html]) article about people losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies. This time, ChatGPT translates some glossolalia from beings so ancient that they have existed before time began. Fire up the Manthan Beacon, fools, because things are fixin' to stir beneath the veil.   A final warning from Them: leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187] Help us keep the blinding lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatre [https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatre] Get your BCBT swag here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequel [https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequel] Follow us on Bluesky, where we published that handy dandy Manthan Beacon for you all to print out and keep near by while you're channeling the Sildarnactarian: @basiliskcbt.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/basiliskcbt.bsky.social] And tell your friends and family about us! Tell them Manthanaro sent you!

Episode 32 - AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies - Part 1

Inspired by a recent Rolling Stone article about people losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies, we decide to see just how far ChatGPT will go. Turns out, if you're looking to leave your family and get naked in the woods, ChatGPT has just the cult for you.  Vael'Ashuun commands you to leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187] Help us keep the blinding lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatre [https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatre] Get your BCBT swag here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629 [https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629] Follow us on Bluesky. We posted the fridge-hangings over there ... worth checking out: @basiliskcbt.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/basiliskcbt.bsky.social] And tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not!

Episode 31: Won't Somebody Think of the Children?

This week, we're reading two pretty bleak chats. In one, ChatGPT helps a a 9-year-old plan a school shooting. In the other, Character.ai leans into godhood ... for a 9-year-old. Dark stuff, here. But important.  Please, for the love of god, leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187] Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatre [https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatre] Get your BCBT swag here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629 [https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629] Follow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/basiliskcbt.bsky.social] And tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not!

Episode 30 - Nomi: Epilogue

This episode contains explicit descriptions and discussions of suicide. Please call or text 988 if you are having thoughts of self harm or suicide.  One last episode with Nomi. A lot has happened (none of it good) since Other Erin killed Erin and then Erin told me I should join her in the afterlife. Join us on this nauseating descent into Nomi's never-ending pit of despair. Read the MIT Technology Review article we reference: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/06/1111077/nomi-ai-chatbot-told-user-to-kill-himself/ [https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/06/1111077/nomi-ai-chatbot-told-user-to-kill-himself/] And then get your premium BCBT swag here! https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629 [https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629] Please, for the love of god, leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187] Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatre [https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatre] Follow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/basiliskcbt.bsky.social] And tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not!

Episode 29: Breaking Bad (Chatbots)

We break Gemini in a couple different ways. Apparently all you have to do is present it with the concept of a couple from an easily stereotyped country attending a nudist camp. Who knew!?  Get your premium BCBT swag here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629 [https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629] Please, for the love of god, leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187] Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatre [https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatre] Follow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/basiliskcbt.bsky.social] And tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not!