if you're thinking about "A.I.," these days, and you keep reaching for comparisons to magic or religion, i need you to pay attention to me right now:

"Occult" is also a verb.

I'm thinking about that Washington Post piece floating around that compares chatgpt to magic in a "nobody knows how the spells work" kind of way, and if there's anything you take from my work, let it be this: Someone knows how the spells work. Someone understands djinn logics of desire. Someone constructed these systems.

But that someone might not be synonymous with, say, the new spellcaster, or the person who polished the ring.

Any effect OF the spells— the wishes, the prompts— can be traced to their design the underlying logics of the systems in use, or (inclusive) the operations of the user.

The demons part is real, tho. But even then: there are rules. Waht you say and how you say it, what you mean and how you mean it— These things matter.