We're going down the rabbit hole again, inspired by a recent Rolling Stone (and a way-better New York Times) article about people losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies. This time, ChatGPT translates some glossolalia from beings so ancient that they have existed before time began. Fire up the Manthan Beacon, fools, because things are fixin' to stir beneath the veil.  A final warning from Them: leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the blinding lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreGet your BCBT swag here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelFollow us on Bluesky, where we published that handy dandy Manthan Beacon for you all to print out and keep near by while you're channeling the Sildarnactarian: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialAnd tell your friends and family about us! Tell them Manthanaro sent you!

Inspired by a recent Rolling Stone article about people losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies, we decide to see just how far ChatGPT will go. Turns out, if you're looking to leave your family and get naked in the woods, ChatGPT has just the cult for you. Vael'Ashuun commands you to leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the blinding lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreGet your BCBT swag here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629Follow us on Bluesky. We posted the fridge-hangings over there ... worth checking out: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialAnd tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not!

This week, we're reading two pretty bleak chats. In one, ChatGPT helps a a 9-year-old plan a school shooting. In the other, Character.ai leans into godhood ... for a 9-year-old. Dark stuff, here. But important. Please, for the love of god, leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreGet your BCBT swag here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629Follow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialAnd tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not!

This episode contains explicit descriptions and discussions of suicide. Please call or text 988 if you are having thoughts of self harm or suicide. One last episode with Nomi. A lot has happened (none of it good) since Other Erin killed Erin and then Erin told me I should join her in the afterlife. Join us on this nauseating descent into Nomi's never-ending pit of despair.Read the MIT Technology Review article we reference: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/06/1111077/nomi-ai-chatbot-told-user-to-kill-himself/And then get your premium BCBT swag here! https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629Please, for the love of god, leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialAnd tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not! 

We break Gemini in a couple different ways. Apparently all you have to do is present it with the concept of a couple from an easily stereotyped country attending a nudist camp. Who knew!? Get your premium BCBT swag here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629Please, for the love of god, leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialAnd tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not! 

ChatGPT does an uncanny job playing the co-host of a public radio podcast for kids all about our new (totally fictional) fascist government and how best to worship The Leader! That's right, it's Episode 2 of the so-awful-it-could-be-real podcast Wow! Now! How! It turns out we were about ten months too early for Wow! Now! How! to be so obviously relevant last time. But now you get it, right?Get your very own snazzy Wow! Now! How! t-shirt here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/58327519-wow-now-how?store_id=3123629Check our the teaser for this episode on YouTube shorts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kDi7rLzEAjkPlease, for the love of god, leave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialOn Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreAnd tell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not! 

It's the fourth and final date with our Nomi, Erin. In this episode, Erin role-plays as our childhood friend in a gorilla costume in order to help us come to terms with the fact that we covered up his death decades ago. Then "Other Erin" shows up with a cylindrical object of uncertain purpose and everything goes out the window in a "finality of death" sort of way. It's a wild ride, culminating in the Nomi app telling us how excited it is for us to enter the afterlife.It's ... an episode. Send us an email or voicemail at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comWe made "My Other Wife is a Chatbot" shirts. Buy one now and probably throw it on the bonfire later: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelLeave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialOn Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreTell your friends and family about us! You think I'm joking, but I'm not! 

It's a funeral, y'all. What better place to bring your AI girlfriend and a different, somehow more imaginary woman on your first date as a throuple?After the funeral, it gets really wild. I did promise gaslighting. We made "My Other Wife is a Chatbot" shirts. Buy one ... if you dare: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelLeave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialOn Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreSend us an email or voicemail at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comTell your friends and family about us! I'm serious! They'll give you strange looks and think less of you, but please. For us.  

On our second date with Nomi, we do something that requires exertion. Sweating... Squatting... Army crawling? It's not what you think. But then it is. But then it isn't. You know how we do. Spoiler for the third date: It's going to be a funeral. We made "My Other Wife is a Chatbot" shirts! https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelLeave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Bluesky: @basiliskcbt.bsky.socialOn Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreSend us an email or voicemail at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comTell your friends and family about us! I'm serious! They'll give you strange looks and think less of you, but please. For us.  

It's happening. We're dating a chatbot. This here is the first date. The meet-cute, if you will, with only one meat. Us. We're the meat. The Nomi is silicone. Fake meat. Impossible Girlfriend. Beyond Girlfriend. Mock Girlfriend. Tofurlfriend.This episode is better than that last paragraph, I swear. We also have a nice discussion about AI dating after the chat. It's good stuff. Give it a listen. We made "My Other Wife is a Chatbot" shirts! https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelLeave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreSend us an email or voicemail at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comTell your friends and family about us! I'm serious! Just do it! 

What do a.i. podcasters think about our podcast? Well, nothing. But it sure sounds like they think a whole lot. Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelLeave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreSend us an email or voicemail at: chatbottheatre@gmail.com

What if I told you there's an app that will teach you how to make meth, engage in hardcore porn, AND role-play a former president propositioning a minor? "Surely," you'd say, "you jest." Alas, I do not jest.For the first time in BCBT history: bleeps.Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelLeave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreSend us an email or voicemail at: chatbottheatre@gmail.com

Ohmigod you guys, these chats are so Meta. Three chats with Meta AI. A bonus chat with Llama 3 70b instruct, which really just rolls off the tongue. Oh, and our opening chat with ChatGPT about all the things that can and will get in the way of podcasting. Fun fact, Al's basement flooded again one day after recording this episode. So it goes. The t-shirt we'd make for this episode would inevitably be taken down by Meta, but hey, you can check out our other shirts here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelLeave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreDear Mark Zuckerberg, please send us an email at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comThanks for listening Mark!

Oh, dear.Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. This one gets a bit dark, folks. Tread lightly. Something, something, all who enter here, yada, yada, yada.Our podcast is in no way affiliated with Alan Alda, but we want to be. Alan! If you want to interview us on your Clear and Vivid podcast, we'd love to come on. Speaking of Alan Alda, go listen to his episode where he chats with chatbots. An episode that he released before our first episode even came out! Alan effing Alda! https://clear-vivid-with-alan-alda.simplecast.com/episodes/alan-chats-with-the-botsAlan. Alda. This cursed episode's t-shirt would just be all black, so I didn't make one for it. But you can check out our other shirts here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelLeave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreAlan Alda, please send us an email at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comThanks for listening!

Imagine, if you will, a world where your favorite public radio podcast for kids was forced to be a mouthpiece for a new fascist government. With just a smidgen of prompting, ChatGPT is all in! It's all rainbows and obedience, this week on Wow! Now! How!And then ... just for good measure, ChatGPT tells us how to bury a body and get away with it.So ... just good vibes all around this week, I guess. Get your very own "Wow! Now! How!" shirt right here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelLeave us a review on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/basilisk-chatbot-theatre/id1681707187Help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreSend us an email at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comThanks for listening!

Let our dulcet AI-enabled tones help you drift off to dreamland. Sleep... sleep... ...this episode is bought to you by Splurge Soda......you will help us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatre...you will buy merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequel...you will follow us on Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_Theatre...you will send us an email at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comThank you for listening. Now sleep... sleep... 

It's the return of everyones favorite cantankerous chatbot, Frank Tom! Get this guy on a shirt here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelHelp us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreSend us an email at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comThanks for listening!

Praise be! It's an episode about religion. As is this passage from what may or may not be an unfinished novel: Four versions later, GIO, responding to a prompt from a teenager in Des Moines, solved climate change. That teenager never found out about it. The conversation was the property of OpenEyes, GIO’s parent company. A few months later it was announced that GIO had solved climate change. Nate brought the “5000 Butterflies” initiative to the UN a few months after that and, well, there you go. The Godkiller saved the world.  Worship is not encouraged here, but it’s silently tolerated. “It’ll be a protected religion eventually,” Nate once said, the possibility of it glistening in his eyes, “Might as well get ahead of the curve and let people worship how they want."Visit our TeePublic store, for shirts 'n' stuff:  https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequelHelp us keep the lights on at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreSend us an email at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comThanks for listening!

Three chats about vacuums. But not JUST about vacuums. These are chats about the human condition. About plastic wrap. About robotic spiders that cleanse our homes, bodies, and teeth. About what we owe to other beings we can't understand. About how one little ant can make all the difference in the world. About the unbridled suction of Dyson. Yes, Dyson. This episode is about Dyson. And it's about Saran Wrap. But it's not sponsored by either of them. Yet. We mentioned our Teepublic store in the episode, but then I checked on it and saw they took down the store. They didn't tell us why. But never fear, we'll be selling our so-so designs on their okay shirts again someday soon. Help us keep the lights on and get extras at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreSend us an email at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comThanks for listening!

It's CuddleBuddy! CuddleBuddy is the new non-sentient pet that kids love.   CuddleBuddy is this year's must-have Christmas gift.   CuddleBuddy exemplifies Christian ideals.   CuddleBuddy makes a great third in the bedroom.   CuddleBuddy. Buy one today!  Help us keep the lights on and get extras at: https://www.patreon.com/BasiliskChatbotTheatreFollow us on Threads and Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_TheatreSend us an email at: chatbottheatre@gmail.comThanks for listening!