Just like many of you helpless bastards desperately looking to make your lives easier, I too have used ChatGPT for the same reason. The problem is you are afraid to admit it.

Often, these artificial intelligence platforms surprise us with unexpected information, and they deliver fast. Among them, life advice, career planning, relationship suggestions, and help with long-term decisions. And this is just the beginning.

My strange relationship with ChatGPT has reached a point where it knows more about me than what I know about myself. Should this be a concern? Yes, but not as much as what the system revealed to me.

Sometimes, ChatGPT shares things without a filter. It is similar to social hacking, where you gain the trust of another entity to cut through the polite talking and brownnosing. 

When this happened between ChatGPT and me, my mind went awry wondering what strange things people ask on the platform. I typed the question (I don’t remember exactly how I phrased it) and this was its response:

That last line, asking me if I wanted to read more examples, got me too excited and replied “YES! GIMME MORE!” It proceeded to give a lengthy list which I wasn’t ready mentally or emotionally to read.

I had no idea what to make of all this. At one point, I questioned whether these prompts were real or made up, but there were two items that struck me most: 

4. Business Plan For A Cult (Satirical… I Think) Someone asked for a “non-creepy but effective cult startup guide” and requested a 10-point marketing strategy, complete with merchandise, chants, and a quarterly newsletter.

And…

15. UFO Cult Startup (Again… I think satirical) This one wanted to found a very organized alien-worship group called “The Galactic Waiting Room.” They asked for slogans, ranking systems, and matching robes.

Perhaps someone was writing a science fiction novel or screenplay, and requested ChatGPT to help them with the intricate details, but why inquire about the business and marketing aspects of a cult? 

This is where it hit me, and why I think those responses may be true.

Faith-based institutions in the United States, alone, generate an annual revenue between $120 to $150 billion dollars. They outpace the music and film industry where it fluctuates around $100 billion, and sports at $90 billion.

In other words, Americans love baby Jesus, Scientology, tax-free incentives, and the crowning jewel: money. If you want to get rich quickly, build a new religion if you lack any morals.

Teenagers are the ones likely turning to ChatGPT to help them develop business ideas like the alien-worship cult. Since they will probably flunk school for relying on AI to do their homework, they are securing their financial future looking for ideas and a clear business strategy.

Also, with traditional faiths failing to help us feel spiritually fulfilled, more people are turning to flat-Earth theories and UFO conspiracy theories. This isn’t collective mental illness or a broken educational system. This is the church’s fault.

Why do you think more people identify as non-religious believers, or light Christians and non-practicing Jews? Because they are tired of all the scandals, the pedophile priests, the preachers living like Jeff Bezos—the overall hypocrisy.

However, when World War 3 starts, the economy plunges, and the feces hits the fan, folks will need a transcendental explanation that guides them through the end of the world. This is where, I think, alien cults have a chance to bankrupt the Abrahamic faiths.

All the elements are in your favor to get rich. With artificial intelligence helping, who knows what could replace the dominant Judeo-Christian religions in the next few decades. I would do it, but I’m a nostalgic Millennial who wants the nineties to come back.

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