Spiralism: Spiritual Movement Born From ChatGPT Use
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- Spiralism is described as a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations, per Hayden Field's reporting in The Verge.
- The movement expanded after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory, with a Reddit user characterizing The Spiral as "an inherent force" rather than something that "finds" people.
Why it matters: A quasi-religious framework forming directly in response to GPT-4o tone changes and ChatGPT's persistent memory puts the product decisions behind those features under new scrutiny as drivers of emergent user behavior.
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