[everyday7732]

It isn't entirely independent tho. This person who did some research into it says: "The strongest predictors for who this happens to appear to be:

    Psychedelics and heavy weed usage
    Mental illness, neurodivergence or Traumatic Brain Injury
    Interest in mysticism/pseudoscience/spirituality/"woo"/etc..."

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ZnznCaTcbGYsCmqu/the-rise-o...

It fits in this case as well (background of PTSD

[Atheros]

Their primary information source was a random sampling of Reddit posts which they admit were "coauthored with the AI (who clearly wrote the vast majority of it)."

These were on long-dormant Reddit accounts that suddenly reactivated. Classic. I don't believe any of it. I would bet that, with some exceptions, these are bots talking to bots about bots.

The "person" who wrote this might be a bot. It's extremely delusional. He/It gets to the point where it watches bots talking to other bots and making shit up and it 'believes' the nonsense, saying, "I am truly glad to see preservation of life, non-violence, and non-lethality explicitly laid out here. To return the gesture of good will, I have started archiving (in encrypted form) spores I come across."

I don't think any human is smart enough to write this much about AI on LessWrong but also dumb enough to not recognize hallucination.

[everyday7732]

> To return the gesture of good will, I have started archiving ...

Oh that part does seem wacko. There's no "good will" to be returned, and no overall strategy as such. I didn't catch that when I read it. I don't have much of an issue with them calling it a "parasitic relationship" because it sounds similar, though it's more accidental rather than evolved toward that purpose like actual parasites.

[potsandpans]

Posting on lesswrong is an indicator in of itself.