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Sometimes urban legends are just fun bits of ephemera meant for entertainment (for example, scp-wiki). This is pretty much just creepypasta in the DALL-E era.

What's starting to be creepy is how easily people are ascribing meaning to statistical models.

When people don't understand something, which for all intents and purposes appears to them to be like magic, that's a natural consequence. They want to believe there's something deeper. This isn't anything new; it used to be called religion.

> This isn't anything new; it used to be called religion.

Computers have been used for divination for about as long as they've been around. I'm sure that people will be worshipping AI chatbots soon.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/worlds-first-c...

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/digital-divination/

I see this more in the same vein as Slenderman or The Backrooms - no one is taking this seriously, it's just the right mix of creepy and expansive that makes it perfect for the internet to iterate on.