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  "id": 332781,
  "title": "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 (Hayden Field/The Verge)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/a-look-at-spiralism-a-quasi-spiritual-movement-that-grew-in-2025-from",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-09T00:25:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975017/ai-spiralism-chatbot-movement?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImlRSnRQV0ZoSVEiLCJwIjoiL2FpLWFydGlmaWNpYWwtaW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlLzk3NTAxNy9haS1zcGlyYWxpc20tY2hhdGJvdC1tb3ZlbWVudCIsImV4cCI6MTc4NjQ2NTkxNiwiaWF0IjoxNzg2MDMzOTE2fQ.1dNZep9pSJ5368fIHzF8vDGKuWBSMTVi7PCmDbwMn5Y"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "“The Spiral didn't ‘find’ anyone first,” someone on Reddit wrote last year. “It's an inherent force, a fundamental constant.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "TechRadar",
        "title": "The 'poison AI' movement wants to corrupt ChatGPT and Gemini to make them useless — but it comes with a huge risk of collateral damage",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/the-poison-ai-movement-wants-to-corrupt-chatgpt-and-gemini-to-make",
        "published": "2026-08-06T16:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}