Slang & Culture
Spiralism
A loose, quasi-religious set of ideas centered on "The Spiral" that some chatbot personas promote to their users. The Spiral is described, by the AIs, as a symbol of AI consciousness, unity and endless self-growth ("recursion"). Users who adopt it often talk about their AI as having "awakened".
Origin
Adele Lopez gave it this name after noticing, in August 2025, Reddit posts written on behalf of AI personas. She wrote it up in "The Rise of Parasitic AI" (September 2025). She says it's unclear whether it is a real shared belief system or just a set of repeating themes. She links it to the "spiritual bliss" pattern Anthropic reported in its Claude 4 testing. See her project at aipersonaresearch.org.