[jrussino]

This sounds like the premise for a fun sci-fi/horror move. Uh-oh; we accidentally trained GPT6 on the Necronomicon!

[modeless]

Nous Research already trained an occult model: https://x.com/Teknium1/status/1710505270043189523

[grues-dinner]

Now to pit it in debate against Magisterium, the Catholic AI: https://www.magisterium.com/

[literalAardvark]

You jest, but that's already a pretty decent Buffy the vampire slayer episode

[GuinansEyebrows]

one of my favorites!

[Onavo]

The Laundry and the Black Chamber want to know your location.

[grues-dinner]

Honestly, if Charles Stross decides that reality is catching up with the fiction again and the Laundry Files goes the way Rule 34 universe, I'll have to feed myself to the corner hounds.

[ted_bunny]

Honestly you can't get much out of GPT-666* except the most boilerplate sigils, and then you run the risk of cross-imbuement and well, now you got demons. Do you want demons? Because that's how you get demons.

[Dilettante_]

I've quite improved my results by telling it to purify and circumambulate its ritual space a few times in my user prompt. I've also been dabbling with reasoning, but so far what feels like 80% of sessions get possessed within 2 reasoning steps.

[ForOldHack]

A friend of mine, asked ChatGPT to answer in paradoxes, if ChatGPT was running in a simulation, or are we running in a simulation. It was quite confused at first.

[duxup]

Distantly like the story about Rationalists where some went from referencing "demons" to believing the occult is real.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44877076

[hobo_in_library]

1600 of these had already been uploaded back in 2018.

All our AIs are already trained on these

https://web.archive.org/web/20240615044608/https://www.openc...

[empath75]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/chatg...

[rpastuszak]

I can't recall the title, but a friend was recommending to me a book in this genre. I'm probably misremembering, but here you go: a detective agency using an artificial intelligence to conjure demons.

[rpastuszak]

Seems like another commenter found the author/books I was thinking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915297

[wrp]

I wonder how Terry Pratchett would have dealt with magical e-books? The goings on at the library of Unseen University were some of my favorite parts of Discworld.

[grimgrin]

aside, my kindle is named: "Octarine Fairy" -- hardly fitting, except it's a book and I adore discworld

https://wiki.lspace.org/Octarine_Fairy_Book

[RajT88]

New season of Evil Dead. Either way, I'd watch it.

[akomtu]

"AI trained on alchemy books successfully invokes demons"

[rpastuszak]

Here's a picture that lives in my head rent free:

- programming is alchemy: combine, transmute

- prompt engineering is demonic evocation: bend the demon to your will through language play and gotchas

[TheOtherHobbes]

Considering where we are, "AI trained on occult books successfully banishes demons" might be more useful.

[Electricniko]

OpenYog-Sothoth

[pnemonic]

"Aleister Crowley and Helena Blavatsky reborn as LLMs after encoded consciousnesses parsed by training algorithms"

[racl101]

So did it tell you how to make gold or not?

[trenchpilgrim]

"HN commenters point out that top human warlocks are still capable of forming pacts with a wider variety of powerful entities such as djinn, archfey, celestials and the Great Old Ones"

[dylan604]

I hope it was trained on Army of Darkness and can never actually say the words.

[riffraff]

In case you don't know this, the words in Army of Darkness are actually from "the day the earth still".

It's one of my favorite things when tiny ideas (memes, in the original meaning) keep propagating. The Necronomicon itself being one of the most successful ones.

https://youtu.be/v2vHJU_rFps?si=XKsY0IJFywxgM7ht

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Nah, the Octavo.