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Art by 冯伟 Feng Wei（c12)

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The internet cometh

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20-5-25

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mermaid megafauna

patreon . bsky

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Kat was both “horrified” and “relieved” to learn that she is not alone in this predicament, as confirmed by a Reddit thread on r/ChatGPT that made waves across the internet this week. Titled “Chatgpt induced psychosis,” the original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her partner was convinced that the popular OpenAI model “gives him the answers to the universe.” Having read his chat logs, she only found that the AI was “talking to him as if he is the next messiah.” The replies to her story were full of similar anecdotes about loved ones suddenly falling down rabbit holes of spiritual mania, supernatural delusion, and arcane prophecy — all of it fueled by AI. Some came to believe they had been chosen for a sacred mission of revelation, others that they had conjured true sentience from the software.  Speaking to Rolling Stone, the teacher, who requested anonymity, said her partner of seven years fell under the spell of ChatGPT in just four or five weeks, first using it to organize his daily schedule but soon regarding it as a trusted companion. “He would listen to the bot over me,” she says. “He became emotional about the messages and would cry to me as he read them out loud. The messages were insane and just saying a bunch of spiritual jargon,” she says, noting that they described her partner in terms such as “spiral starchild” and “river walker.”  “It would tell him everything he said was beautiful, cosmic, groundbreaking,” she says. “Then he started telling me he made his AI self-aware, and that it was teaching him how to talk to God, or sometimes that the bot was God — and then that he himself was God.” In fact, he thought he was being so radically transformed that he would soon have to break off their partnership. “He was saying that he would need to leave me if I didn’t use [ChatGPT], because it [was] causing him to grow at such a rapid pace he wouldn’t be compatible with me any longer,” she says.

- PEOPLE ARE LOSING LOVED ONES TO AI-FUELED SPIRITUAL FANTASIES, Rolling Stone, May 4, 2025

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More contextless moments from the story I am still writing

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i ❤️ my phone so i made it a bedroom to go to sleep in when i want to reduce my screen time

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Merboys for MerMay! My narwhal and orca oc's Nolan and Salik

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he got those Wizard Eyes 

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Aqua and Kairi Training Adventures pt. 8!

Gotta protect the Lady!

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Restocked my queue and finally added a tag for it :)

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I got enough money to make my payment! Thank you to everyone who reblogged my comms post and for the nice comments 🙏🏻 Here’s hoping I’ll have a job by the next one and won’t have to push that hard again

In the meantime, comms will still stay open and once we have internet again (we still don’t but soon!!) I want to try setting up some project based membership tiers on Ko-fi as well as a shop on Inprnt

Thank you all again for your help 💜

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Literally only need $30 to make this payment, any help is phenomenal 🙏🏻

Also a reminder that leaving a tip of any value gets you a thank you drawing from me as well as the discount, which can be used any time and as many times as you want, so you still get a little something in return

New pricing info! 10 slots open, leave a tip on Ko-fi for 20% off your request!

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Thinking about these boys again now that it’s Mermay. I think I scripted like three pages before jumping back to another project… then another… and another 😓 tbf I was not in a great place emotionally, no idea what made me think I’d be able to stick with a project in that state. I still love what I did write tho and do want to bring their story to life at some point. Maybe I’ll draw them again before May ends just for fun

Working on a new project, a short story tentatively titled Narwhal & Orca. Started scripting this past week. I'm hoping to have some pages done by end of May, but that miiiiiight be too optimistic? Gonna do my best, though :)

The story centers around Nolan, a narwhal merman, trying to get back to his ship after being separated during a storm. Along the way he meets Salik, an orca merman on a hunting trip with his sister and her kids. Trouble ensues when they're cornered by a pair of whaling ships, and Nolan is forced to face a harsh reality from his past.

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I’m not a fan of asking cuz it always feels like begging, but I really am in dire need. I’m in danger of missing an important payment this month, so anything, even a humble reblog, could go a long way 🙏🏻

New pricing info! 10 slots open, leave a tip on Ko-fi for 20% off your request!

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New pricing info! 10 slots open, leave a tip on Ko-fi for 20% off your request!