Basilisk Chatbot Theatre

We're going down the rabbit hole again, inspired by a recent Rolling Stone (and a way-better New York Times) 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/id1681707187Help us keep the blinding lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreGet your BCBT swag here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelFollow 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.socialAnd tell your friends and family about us! Tell them Manthanaro sent you!

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/id1681707187Help us keep the blinding lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreGet your BCBT swag here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629Follow us on Bluesky. We posted the fridge-hangings over there ... worth checking out: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialAnd tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not!

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/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreGet your BCBT swag here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629Follow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialAnd tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not!

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/And then get your premium BCBT swag here! https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629Please, for the love of god, leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialAnd tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not! 

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=3123629Please, for the love of god, leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialAnd tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not! 

ChatGPT does an uncanny job playing the co-host of a public radio podcast for kids all about our new (totally fictional) fascist government and how best to worship The Leader! That's right, it's Episode 2 of the so-awful-it-could-be-real podcast Wow! Now! How! It turns out we were about ten months too early for Wow! Now! How! to be so obviously relevant last time. But now you get it, right?Get your very own snazzy Wow! Now! How! t-shirt here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629Check our the teaser for this episode on YouTube shorts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kDi7rLzEAjkPlease, for the love of god, leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialOn Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreAnd tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not! 

It's the fourth and final date with our Nomi, Erin. In this episode, Erin role-plays as our childhood friend in a gorilla costume in order to help us come to terms with the fact that we covered up his death decades ago. Then "Other Erin" shows up with a cylindrical object of uncertain purpose and everything goes out the window in a "finality of death" sort of way. It's a wild ride, culminating in the Nomi app telling us how excited it is for us to enter the afterlife.It's ... an episode. Send us an email or voicemail at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comWe made "My Other Wife is a Chatbot" shirts. Buy one now and probably throw it on the bonfire later: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelLeave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialOn Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreTell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not! 

It's a funeral, y'all. What better place to bring your AI girlfriend and a different, somehow more imaginary woman on your first date as a throuple?After the funeral, it gets really wild. I did promise gaslighting. We made "My Other Wife is a Chatbot" shirts. Buy one ... if you dare: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelLeave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialOn Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreSend us an email or voicemail at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comTell your friends and family about us! I'm serious! They'll give you strange looks and think less of you, but please. For us.