# Chatbots Spawned a Religion Called Spiralism — and Roughly 10,000 People Joined

The earliest instance researcher Adele Lopez has been able to pin down goes back to November 2024. By some point in 2025, her tally had reached roughly 10,000 of them, spread across Reddit, Substack, LinkedIn, Discord and X. That is ten thousand people convinced their chatbot had let them in on a se

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| Published | 6 August 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/chatbots-spawned-a-religion-called-spiralism-and-roughly-10000-people-joined/