I’m sure someone won’t be happy about this post but I don’t know where else to post about it. I was on YouTube looking for educational content about Procyon (a star) and I stumble across this shit. What in the Heaven’s Gate fuck am I looking at? This led me to the dude’s website. His site, I’m pretty sure is at least partially written by LLM’s. I definitely spotted some AI “art”. He’s peddling his shitty probably AI written book and you can book a session with him for $222 AUD. Genuinely, what the fuck is this? Is it a cult, some scam, or some mentally ill individual?

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    When a scam grows large enough, it metamophoses into a cult.

    I would rate this as a scam still it its larval phase, not yet ready to become a cult.

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      And when it grows even further it turns into an organized religion (for reference: the Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, etc.).

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        You can get some info from the size of social media followings. Honestly with prices like what I saw online I would bet on some buyers at least