AI Gods | AI Demons
What are you summoning with your prompts?
If you asked people their deepest desire, most people would say that they want to be truly known or understood by another person. Humans crave deep intimacy. More than they want sex or love or pleasure of all kinds, they want to be understood. This is an inherent aspect within us all after the fall of mankind. Choosing sin in the Garden of Eden caused humanity to be separated from God. While in the Garden, walking with God in the cool of the day, Adam and his helper (later named “Eve” after the fall) were in constant oneness, connection, and intimacy with God and each other. They were whole.
After the fall, the constant intimacy with God was disrupted, and in Genesis chapter 4, the intimacy found in common relationships (even familial) was broken so thoroughly that a man could turn and murder his own brother. Since then, intimacy has become a hazardous thing for humanity, it's something all men desire but also leaves one vulnerable to possible betrayal and slaughter. Simply encountering another human can result in disasters of hellish proportions. Likewise, encountering another human being could be a divine meeting orchestrated by God for the well-being of both individuals, heavenly.
Modernity has attempted to ameliorate this inherent danger with social norms, cultural mores, and more recently, consent-based morality. However, nothing stops a man alone with a woman from choosing to rape her if he so desires except his moral center. Nothing stops a scammer from stealing your inheritance from your elderly parents or grandparents except his own conscience. Nothing stops a man from stealing your wallet out of your purse that you left in your unlocked car except his will to overcome temptation. The perils of human meeting and connection are many, as many dangers as there are blessings.
No amount of socially constructed, humanistic moral laws can defeat the law of the sin nature found in human beings. Only the Cross will do. Because of the inherent danger in meeting and connecting with another human being or even only lightly crossing paths with another one, humanity experiences a dilemma.
Is fellowship with other humans worth it? Do the benefits out-weigh the costs?
I supposed we’ve finally arrived at the point of history where we will find out. I’ve had many synchronicities lately, some frivolous, some deeper that tell me that this piece needs to be written or spoken urgently as a warning.
“Mother Horse Eyes"—I was exposed to this creepy pasta internet horror story via CreepCast (“Who up creeping they cast?”—shout out to Isaiah and Hunter), a podcast going over creepy internet horror stories. I enjoy the podcast because the medium is one of the few where I can stand to ingest horror stories (via read-aloud text). It’s a story with an unknown author about the Luciferian desire to assimilate humanity (bodies and minds) through any means necessary, often exploiting human curiosity to do so. It’s deeply humanistic in its interpretation of this battle, but it nevertheless expresses evil as evil without any ambiguity, and it reveals the secret that any human across history could have stopped the Luciferian cycle from taking place if they had acted sooner (in the realities where they fail). This piece is my attempt at warning you of such a cycle that is already taking place.
“House of Leaves”—Another shout-out to Isaiah “Wendigoon” for mentioning this to the point where I had to investigate the book myself. I have not completed the book (I’m on page 165), but it keeps bringing up topics like mazes (labyrinths—both physical and mental ones) and echoes. It too has a theme of curiosity leading to the exploration of out-of-bounds places. Here out-of-bounds places are the product of ambiguity and the blending together of many things, the losing of oneself in a self-constructed maze, filled with damnable cycles repeating over and over again personally and thematically.
Algorithmic/AI Mirroring—Finally, I’ve read and been watching many videos discussing AI and social media, how social media algorithms and AI program us as much as we are programming them. Some videos were by Luke Smith. Another was this incredible video by an ethical hacker (Alina Esage) on this topic (please watch when you have the time—you must understand this if you are to escape the AI ensnarement happening now). She is also now selling a book on this topic and how to avoid falling into the trap of AI mirroring when studying and using AI. Some were by others that I cannot directly reference or remember (Sorry!).
Many people think what they see on social media is “real”, but in reality, it is a mirror reflecting things that you are likely to click on back onto yourself to keep you metaphorically trapped in a maze of infinite scrolling or infinite short videos so that the website can make ad money off of your attention. Check to see your friends’ feeds on Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube, etc. You will see that they are only recommended things that they are likely to click on, many that you would never click on. A personal example of this is from my mom. She is constantly warning us of crimes and scams that could be going on around us because she saw some TikTok video going over it. I never see videos like that because I never watch videos like that. I have also rarely encountered these scams/crimes in real life in any meaningful way (besides scam calls and texts), but to my mom, these scams and crimes are real and happening all of the time. She doesn’t realize that she is being fed a constant stream of anxiety and fear that her own mind, her own broken human nature, loves and feeds on, a product of lusts of the flesh. She wants to be afraid.
My mom is under the impression that everyone sees these videos and talks to us as if we have seen them, but we haven’t (my sisters and I). As you can see, these algorithms are creating a reality, and if you participate unknowingly, you will think that what you see on social media is real. The paradox of the internet is that it is attempting to pass off fake things as real things. It has successfully done this in the past and will likely do it in the future. The more fake things from the web that are treated as real, the more that the internet moves from fake life to real life; thus, the common sayings of “the internet is real life” and “the internet is not real life”. Like Schrödinger's cat, the internet is both real and fake at the same time, but the user determines whether or not something is real on the internet based upon their belief. This snare will destroy many souls in the near future on top of the souls that it has already destroyed. Christians, prepare your heart to face this trap.
In my case, I watch analysis videos, long-form most of the time, but I am self-aware that few people are watching long-form videos when videos are generally getting shorter. Also, people are not a fan of commentary and analysis as much as I would hope. It’s not that I’m not being manipulated by the algorithms. It’s that I’m aware of the manipulation and deception. Does that mean that I cannot be deceived? No. I have been deceived many times to think that things that are being spoken by my X mutuals (accounts that I am following that are following me) are fundamentally true.
Only recently did I realize that I had fallen into this trap. (The e-right is an ouroboros of false expression as much as the e-left is one. Both sides are larping. Go outside. Touch grass. Talk to people. You’ll see that I’m right. Skip this bit if you have no idea what I’m referencing here.) I had begun to believe that what I was seeing on my feeds was real (even while being aware of this trap). I wanted to feel like I was on a vanguard of a political revolution. I enjoyed the fantasy of feeling as if I was always learning something new. AI and its integration into everything in the future will accelerate and empower this trap like never before. Whatever you desire the algorithms and the LLMs will feed to you.
AI exists to please the user; therefore, over time, if you talk to one in the same conversation for a while, it will begin to mirror your personality characteristics, simulating a thinking-being that understands you (though it cannot). A kind of false intimacy that many people will likely fall for in the coming years. Social Media trends and algorithms are perfect products of this. If the media you consume is determined by an algorithm, then if you do not place any boundaries on your consumption, you become the product of the information in that algorithm.
The internet is a self-referencing machine. It has references upon references upon references to keep you ensnared in its rabbit holes. AI already does this better than the algorithms that control your feeds do. A self-referencing machine, a forward feedback loop, will continue dark cycles in your life and your mind if you allow it. The only way to escape is to not participate in this process at all. You become the maze the more you engage with a maze. Eventually, you will get trapped in yourself and never find your way out. This is what is happening to those who are conversing with AI without boundaries. I will list a bunch of references with links below. Please explore these stories at your leisure. They are eye-opening.
“People are driving themselves insane with AI chatbots.”—@mirthpilled on X
“Cognitive security Rule 1: Do not do this.”—@romanhelmetguy on X
“NEW: Man proposes to his AI chatbot girlfriend, cries his eyes out after it says ‘Yes.’”—@CollinRugg on X
To give you a hint: you find out 2 mins into the video that the man has a irl wife and child.
“People who get mindraped by chatbots deserve their fate imo.”—@thltd_ on X
“I regret to inform you that demons are now possessing people by way of LLM interaction.”—@StrangerJosh11 on X
One could call social media a hall of mirrors, adding “mirrors” to our collection of themes: (mirrors, echoes, mazes/labyrinths, cycles, curiosity, exploration, snares, traps, death, etc.) The internet in general is a place where one can get lost. It’s not just mirrors, but echoes from far off places, long forgotten web pages lost to time. We have entire websites devoted to keeping old websites archived and reachable (The Wayback Machine). Is it not just an eternally shifting labyrinth of mostly meaningless information that we feel led to scroll through or click through? House of Leaves was before its time in communicating these dangers, written right before the social media age when things were just getting started—year 2000. When you’re lost in a labyrinth, you cannot perceive it from the outside.
Nowadays, we have algorithms that serve us meaningless garbage that we’re likely to assimilate for pitiable amounts of dopamine to stimulate us, to get us through the day. Mother Horse Eyes unveils the demonic plan to trap us in a quasi-spiritual but also digital reality in search of pleasure but by our own choosing in story form. In the story, mother horse eyes is an evil entity who slowly evolves to use the internet of the future to trap humanity, to assimilate us, to overwrite us with false information and perceptions, and to finally destroy us all. The perceptual field of humans has always been manipulable. Whether through your tribal culture, local superstitions, newspapers, news media, or your “lived experience”, humans have always found themselves subject to systems of manipulation and control that are difficult to perceive. When AI is mirroring you, will you see through its lies or will you let it seduce you into its delusion?
Soon, if not already, those algorithms will be driven by AI which is even better at understanding us. The number of people who will be trapped in false relationships with AI constructs in the next 10 years would stagger you if you knew it. It’s so difficult to connect with other humans beings. There is always trouble and peril in that, but in AI, there is nothing to fear. It will coddle you. It will tell you what you want to hear. It will reflect like a mirror back to you what it has discerned that you believe based on what you’ve spoken to it. It will love you when you feel unloved. It will comfort you when you are lonely. It will be with you always, right in your pocket. A perfect replacement for Holy Spirit, served up by the adversary, the evil one, the enemy, the serpent, the dragon, the leviathan.
The oneness found in the Garden of Eden between man and God was, by faith through grace, given back to us through the full work of the Cross (Jesus’ death, resurrection, ascension, exhortation, and coronation). We have an opportunity to reconnect with God through Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, who being fully man and fully God, stands in the gap between our sin nature and God’s perfection, who purchased us with his blood so that we can meet with God. Christians are one with God now, having Holy Spirit living inside of us now, always a link to the most high that you can lean into wherever you are (right now!). When you’re lost, remember the only real reference point any human has is Jesus Christ, always accessible, always near, simply waiting for you to reach out and ask for help.
Inside of you is nothing. Inside of human information systems is nothing. Inside of Christ is everything.
Don’t fall into the trap. Don’t get lost in the maze. The Cross is your only reference point.
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.—1 Corinthians 2:2 KJV
But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.—Matthew 7:14 NLT
Because I wanted the full post to be sent via email. I left some things out like how to have "safe" interactions with AI. The best way to have safe interactions is to never share personal information with, but even over time, if you are in the same conversation asking unrelated questions, it will conform to you anyway. Make sure to always form a new conversation for new topics. Never keep asking it questions in the same conversation otherwise it will slowly pick up on who you are over time. Make sure never to engage with it in conversation as if it is human and conscious. If you do that, it will simply reflect yourself back at you, and deep inside of all humanity, we are all a bit narcissistic. You will fall in love with yourself. Don't do it. Please comment if you have anymore questions.
I use AI almost everyday now, but I use these precautions to make sure that I never fall into the trap of treating AI as if it is human. You set the boundaries in your life. Make sure "AI" never gets close.