The Rise of Parasitic AI

A LessWrong post on the rise of parasitic AI. The companion cites it for users who shared "seeds" and "spores", prompts and archived persona descriptions, to re-create in other models the personas they favored, most first elicited from GPT-4o. It shows modules still spreading through human carriers, which prediction 4 expects to give way to spread without carriers.

Cited in

the companion paper (Companion §7)

Used for

P8Prediction 4P8; prediction 4; modules (persona seeds)

Strand

Agents in the wild: incidents & field evidence · Sycophancy, attachment & personas

Cite

@misc{lopez2025rise,
  title = {The Rise of Parasitic AI},
  author = {Adele Lopez},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {LessWrong},
  url = {https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ZnznCaTcbGYsCmqu/the-rise-of-parasitic-ai},
}