Very long article very well worth the read (phenomenal work, that scene writes a lot, or is it bots now?):
https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse
A Harry Potter fanfic used as a recruiting pipeline. Psychological workshops that former participants describe as coercive. A program for breeding smarter children, promoted by an AI institute. A sex worker from Idaho who became one of the subculture’s most-read writers and now runs an AI-doom propaganda residency with Grimes, Elon Musk’s ex-girlfriend. A splinter sect that fled to tugboats and whose members have been linked to six deaths. And a blogger who wanted to abolish democracy, found the ear of several billionaire patrons, and watched his ideas come to fruition in the vice president’s office.
I am aware, that if you are not lurking on the internet as much as I do, of how utterly insane that paragraph sounds. However, every bit of it is heavily documented by numerous sources.
Uh,
I mean in a sense morbidly online people who have been morbidly online their entire lives, self-centered, coming from religious backgrounds and tripping out, right. That makes sense.
But also no, what the actual fuck is going on?