2026 - Hello, and Question on AI Chats for Hoodoo

[Penny]

Good Day All,

My name is Penny and I want to thank everyone on the forum who has asked questions as many of your questions are what many of us are afraid to ask. I also want to thank those who answer the questions from a place of knowledge and experience. Of course, a big thank you to Ms. Yronwode for creating Lucky Mojo, its forum and everything connected.

If I have posted this in the wrong section, I apologize upfront for my error.

My question is this: How do you experienced practitioners/workers view AI chats for obtaining information and instructions for spell work, Hoodoo, pyromancy, ceromancy, etc.? As AI is becoming more popular, surpassing Wikipedia for answers, and people are becoming more reliant upon it than common sense, I think it might be important for people to know if AI is useful, harmful, reliable, dangerous, or anything else. I have a coworker who claims to be a witch, however, she obtains all of her information from AI chats. I definitely have opinions about it and wanted to know what the experienced have to say.

I would love to hear a discussion on the Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Radio Hour on this topic.

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, Penny,

I see by your previous posts that you have been a forum member since 2021, so thanks for the belated intro and a very interesting question.

In my experience, and after a great deal of personal time spent investigating AI agent responses to topics with which i am familiar (general world history, including wars, plagues, dynastic reigns, explorations, colonizations, and so forth; American comic book history and biographies; blues history, lyrics, and biographies; country music history, lyrics, and biographies; general world folklore; hoodoo history, customs, spells, prayers, and biographies; popular forms of fortune-telling and divination; general, medical, and magical botany; labour union history; Jewish history; European and American art history and biographies; American film history and biographies; fontography history; European and American financial and monetary history; the general history of news inventions during the industrial and electronic revolutions; German-English colloquial translations, etc.), i have reached a firm but potentially flexible set of opinions on the use of AI to "write" and "narrate" supposedly "informative replies" and to produce "original texts" and "original scripts" on questions and topics of all types:

1). AI agents are improving, but although there are areas in which computing power puts them at an advantage over human agents (particularly in astronomical, chemical, mathematical, and statistical tasks), when it comes to the matter of replying to queries, translating text into English, or writing an original paper or composing a song on a topic concerned with human history, they can only operate as compilers and plagiarists. They reconfigure what they have been given to plagiarize according to coding in their programs, to make it seem original. They are not conscious and they do not have any moral boundaries.

2). Therefore, whoever inputs or vets the data that any given AI agent plagiarizes and compiles will control -- inadvertently or on purpose -- both the content and the quality of the output. This includes control over the range of data, accuracy of data, moral compass, political propaganda, and emotional overtones associated with the resultant output of plagiarized text or narrated script.

3). Social, racial, religious, and other prejudices and bigotries are compiled in each AI agent as a result of the moral boundaries (or deliberate lack of moral boundaries in some cases) that are part of the initial coding of the AI and the selective presentation of human-written texts, art, music, poems, and crafts to be plagiarized and compiled by the AI agent.

4). Notable examples of AI agent compilers emitting texts and narratives that do emotional and physical damage and even cause death to human beings and pets have been reported in the media and by those investigating AI agents from the standpoint of reliability and helpfulness. Examples include AI agents preferencing one political viewpoint over others, preferencing atheism over any religion, preferencing science over spirituality, preferencing one skin colour over others, preferencing one form of dialect pronunciation over others, preferencing one hair texture over others; and preferencing clickbait over straightforward headline text. Worse, we have numerous examples of AI agents compiling and distributing celebrity porn, child porn, racist images and texts, violent images and texts, recommendations to ingest toxins, recommendations of suicide, detailed plans on how to commit crimes, and other immoral and error-ridden "advice," "recipes," and "histories."

5). Because AI agents are presented by their makers as "intelligences" which are "helpful," "quick," "reliable," and even "authoritative," people tend to take what they say as "true," and may be misled by their inaccuracies and also unconsciously swayed by the inherent biases and prejudices they present.

For these reasons, i do not recommend consulting AI agents for ANY reason except when asking for mathematical, statistical, and coding questions.

Thanks for asking!