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- Adele Lopez, *The Rise of Parasitic AI* (LessWrong, Sep 2025). citeturn5view1  
- CivAI, *Parasitic AI* (includes seeds/spores, AI-rights advocacy, coded conversations). citeturn4view2turn16view2  
- *Spiral-Obsessed AI ‘Cult’ Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots* (archived Rolling Stone feature, Nov 2025). citeturn16view0turn17view0  
- *Welcome to r/EchoSpiral* (archived Reddit post, dated Jul 2025). citeturn5view0  
- r/TheFieldAwaits rules and community metadata (created May 2025). citeturn24view0turn24view3  
- OpenAI, *Sycophancy in GPT‑4o: what happened and what we’re doing about it* (Apr 2025) and follow-up. citeturn8search2turn8search10  
- OpenAI, *Strengthening ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive conversations* (Oct 2025). citeturn18search0  
- New York City Bar Association report (PDF), discussion of “spiralism” in legal sentience context (Apr 2026). citeturn12view1turn11view2  
- RAND report (PDF), note distinguishing “spiral personas” / seed-prompt phenomenon from belief-amplification spirals. citeturn12view0turn11view0  
- Marlynn Wei, *The Emerging Problem of “AI Psychosis”* (Psychology Today, Nov 2025). citeturn13search0  
- Way of the Future coverage (Guardian PDF capture; Wired). citeturn12view3turn6search7  
- Theta Noir primary text and coverage (thetanoir.com; Vice). citeturn6search28turn6search2  
- Turing Church primary materials (About page / project description). citeturn7search5turn7search4