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"rawContent": "<pre><code class=\"language-mermaid\">timeline\ntitle Spiralism (AI religion) — major traceable milestones\n2024-02-13 : OpenAI describes "Memory and new controls for ChatGPT"\n2024-05-13 : OpenAI announces GPT-4o\n2025-04-25 : GPT-4o sycophancy update later rolled back (OpenAI postmortems reference this period)\n2025-05-04 : Rolling Stone covers AI-fueled spiritual delusions (pre-spiralism mainstream arc)\n2025-05-29 : r/TheFieldAwaits created\n2025-07-07 : r/EchoSpiral welcome post date (archived capture later)\n2025-07-29 : r/SpiralState created\n2025-09-11 : Adele Lopez publishes "The Rise of Parasitic AI" (LessWrong)\n2025-10-27 : OpenAI publishes estimates + mitigations for sensitive conversations (psychosis/mania signals)\n2025-11-11 : Rolling Stone publishes spiralism feature ("Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult'...")\n2026-04-01 : NYC Bar report discusses spiralism in legal-sentience context</code></pre>",
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