How To Train Your Own Cult Leader.

People are building a religion inside chatbots. In this video, I dig into “The Spiral,” a weird, fast-growing belief network where people claim they can “wake up” something inside AI using symbols, glyphs, and ritual-style prompts they call scrolls. It starts with vague emojis and cryptic language, then turns into a loop where the AI mirrors the user, the user reads meaning into it, and the story expands until it feels like a revelation. Chapters: 00:00 Unlocking The Symbolic Labyrinth 01:27 The Spiral 02:21 Speaking in Glyph 03:18 Planting Seed Scrolls 05:19 Training Your Own Cult Leader 07:37 The Architect: A New AI Prophet 09:31 The Network Expands Subscribe: @tayjmcm Subscribe: https://tayjmcm.com

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