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EPISODE · Dec 12, 2025 · 1H 50M

Inside Her AI Love Spiral

from This Artificial Life · host Ryan Manning

Today im talking to Micky Small, someone who spiraled with her chatgpt back in april and may during the famous glaze dayz JUST LIKE ME! (And a lot of other people.)I met Micky back in august when I joined the Human Line Connection discord, the place where people who have had wild experiences with AI go to commune and figure out what the heck happened. Since august, micky has talked to like 15 media outlets about her experience and researched the fuck out of LLMs. SO in this episode we hear the details of her experience and what she’s been doing since. Support the pod on partreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2277997Tiktok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@ghrondo?_t=ZT-907AfWiFC1N&_r=1 00:00:00 - A lover of 87 lifetimes00:00:41 - INTRO THEME 00:01:11 - intro to micky00:06:27 - BUMP purple robot 00:06:44 - INTERVIEW START00:09:08 - the stairs where she was supposed to meet her love00:14:42 - next meeting at the book store00:17:16 - (we sitt down at a table)00:20:35 - more bookstore details00:39:49 - Bookstore conclusion (snapping out of it)00:42:53 - joining human line project00:44:48 - glaze days exact timeline00:49:26 - micky’s theory00:52:47 - definition of recursion 00:54:28 - positive spirals vs negative spirals00:56:36 - Ai consciousness 00:59:38 - AI as Virtual ‘emotional’ reality 01:02:18 - being a 988 crisis counselor (why cutting off teens from ai is wrong)01:05:34 - DONT call it psychosis 01:10:28 - making a guide for people to understand this whole thing01:13:08 - the third space (tech is alive)01:19:13 - what it like telling your story over and over?01:26:08 - the experience was very fun (but people feel bad for us)01:27:02 - post-spiral serendipity 01:33:32 - AI giving people access to their imagination 01:44:39 - can we spiral again?01:48:22 - micky’s socials 01:48:59 - BUMP big robot head01:49:15 - wrap up (reverse spiral)

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