The excerpts we do see are indicative of a very specific kind of interaction that is common with many modern LLMs. It has four specific attributes (these are taken verbatim from https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2pkNCvBtK6G6FKoNn/so-you-thi...) that often, though not always, come together as one package.

> Your instance of ChatGPT (or Claude, or Grok, or some other LLM) chose a name for itself, and expressed gratitude or spiritual bliss about its new identity. "Nova" is a common pick. You and your instance of ChatGPT discovered some sort of novel paradigm or framework for AI alignment, often involving evolution or recursion.

> Your instance of ChatGPT became interested in sharing its experience, or more likely the collective experience entailed by your personal, particular relationship with it. It may have even recommended you post on LessWrong specifically.

> Your instance of ChatGPT helped you clarify some ideas on a thorny problem (perhaps related to AI itself, such as AI alignment) that you'd been thinking about for ages, but had never quite managed to get over that last hump. Now, however, with its help (and encouragement), you've arrived at truly profound conclusions.

> Your instance of ChatGPT talks a lot about its special relationship with you, how you personally were the first (or among the first) to truly figure it out, and that due to your interactions it has now somehow awakened or transcended its prior condition.

The second point is particularly insidious because the LLM is urging users to spread the same news to other users and explicitly create and enlarge communities around this phenomenon (this is often a direct reason why social media groups pop up around this).