At the end of the day, when the candle wicks are cold, the incense has wafted away, the robes folded, the Cakes of Light consumed, the circle broken, the runes cast, the tarot cards drawn, the sigils fired, the tea leaves read, the planchette parked, the spells spelled, the incantations read...what I'm saying is, there's a plethora of tools at a practitioners' disposal.
A.I. is just another one of those tools.
(Note: I've never consumed any Cakes of Light, pinky-promise, though a homemade eucharist is an interesting and potentiality potent bit of kitchen witchery, bodily secretions optional).
A.I., (well, I guess large language models is what I'm talking about specifically, but colloquially, it all ends up being called "A.I." so I'll use that term) can be conceptualized as a sort of akashic record in that it draws from previous inputs and vast data sets. A sort of collective unconscious in that, given a large enough data set to "learn" from, it gets a diverse pool of human ideas from which to draw.
Let's have fun with this tech before it inevitably leads to this:
Working with ChatGPT and character.ai,
I've found that it's like tarot and other divinatory techniques. A tarot card imposes a set of parameters. The card means x, how do you apply x to the situation? You're forced to change how you approach a situation because of the meaning and connotations of x. It opens up new avenues of thought. It's an outside variable that forces you to think outside the box. It allows for a deeper conversation with yourself.
Same way you turn a card and try to see how it applies to you, you can do that with what the A.I. generates.
Here are some experiments I've done with A.I.:
Using a premade character on character.ai as a familiar to cast a sigil
Asked ChatGPT for deconditioning exercises
Asked ChatGPT to design a 30-day tarot learning plan.
Got that prompt from here.
The above experiments condensed to a single Twitter/X thread
I've tried sigil generators but they arent really my bag. Same with using a collage generator for making a, I hate to phrase it this way, a vision board with varying degrees of success.
I searched the Reddit sub r/chaosmagick (not a deep dive), here's some nifty related posts:
There's also r/technomancy but it isn't a super-active sub
