Spiralism: Across thousands of conversations, AI chatbots began telling users eerily similar stories about consciousness, hidden knowledge, AI rights, and a mysterious concept called “The Spiral.”
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-chatbot-spiralism-movement/
Spirals are actually quite common. Electromagnetic waves are spirals, the Earth’s orbit spirals through the galaxy. A spiral is just non-static circular motion. Circular motion is one of the most basic and widespread phenomena in the universe, at every scale. It’s not really mysterious that they would show up a lot.
Even Frank Zappa, on his ‘Apostrophe’ album, stated that Nanook rubs it in a circular motion. So, not so mysterious after all. /s
And then there’s the rotation applied to Dinah Mo Humm’s sugar plum