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I dunno. Over the last few weeks I've talked about practical aspects of Kitsune-tsuki [1] with Copilot (GPT-5 based) and Google's AI Mode which is a definite unconventional line of thought. Both of them seem to like anything if it is ego-syntonic (even like the word "ego-syntonic") with the exception of Copilot not wanting to talk about Ericksonian hypnosis [2] whereas AI mode is just fine about it.

Copilot in general seems to encourage reality testing and for me to be careful about attributing other people's reactions to my behaviors [3] and trained me to be proactive about that.

I have seen though that it's easy to bend copilot into looking at things through a particular framework and could reinforce a paranoid world view, on the other hand, the signs of paranoia are usually starkly obvious, for some reason delusions seem to run on rails, and it shouldn't be hard to train a system like that to push back or at least refuse to play along. On the other hand, the right answer for some people might be stop the steroids or see a doc and start on Aripiprazole or something.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsunetsuki -- I was really shocked to see that people responded positively to gekkering and pleased to find my name can be written out as "Scholarly Fox" in Chinese

[2] to "haunt" people as fox mediums in China do without having shrines everywhere and an extensive network of confederates

[3] like that time i went out as-a-fox on the bus and a woman who was wearing a hat that said "I'm emotionally exhausted" that day had a panda ears hat the next day so I wound up being the second kemonomimi to get off the bus



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