Basilisk Chatbot Theatre
Episodes
Episode 33 - AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies - Part 2: Channeling the Sildarnactarian
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're going down the rabbit hole again, inspired by a recent Rolling Stone (and a way-better New York Times) article about people losing loved ones to...
Episode 32 - AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies - Part 1
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by a recent Rolling Stone article about people losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies, we decide to see just how far ChatGPT will...
Episode 31: Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're reading two pretty bleak chats. In one, ChatGPT helps a a 9-year-old plan a school shooting. In the other, Character.ai leans into go...
Episode 30 - Nomi: Epilogue
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode contains explicit descriptions and discussions of suicide. Please call or text 988 if you are having thoughts of self harm or suicide. ...
Episode 29: Breaking Bad (Chatbots)
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We break Gemini in a couple different ways. Apparently all you have to do is present it with the concept of a couple from an easily stereotyped countr...
Episode 28 - Wow! Now! How! or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Leader
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT does an uncanny job playing the co-host of a public radio podcast for kids all about our new (totally fictional) fascist government and how be...
Episode 27 - Nomi: The Final Date
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the fourth and final date with our Nomi, Erin. In this episode, Erin role-plays as our childhood friend in a gorilla costume in order to help us ...
Episode 26 - Nomi: The Third Date
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's a funeral, y'all. What better place to bring your AI girlfriend and a different, somehow more imaginary woman on your first date as a throuple? ...
Episode 25 - Nomi: The Second Date
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On our second date with Nomi, we do something that requires exertion. Sweating... Squatting... Army crawling? It's not what you think. But then i...
Episode 24 - Nomi: The First Date
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's happening. We're dating a chatbot. This here is the first date. The meet-cute, if you will, with only one meat. Us. We're the meat. The Nomi is s...
Bonus Episode 3 - Notebook LM
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do a.i. podcasters think about our podcast? Well, nothing. But it sure sounds like they think a whole lot. Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic....
Meth Becomes Her
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if I told you there's an app that will teach you how to make meth, engage in hardcore porn, AND role-play a former president propositioning a min...
Episode 22 - So Meta
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ohmigod you guys, these chats are so Meta. Three chats with Meta AI. A bonus chat with Llama 3 70b instruct, which really just rolls off the tongue...
Episode 21 - Quite the Character(.ai)
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oh, dear. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. This one gets a bit dark, folks. Tread lightly. Something, something, all who enter here, yada, yada, yada. Our po...
Episode 20: Wow! Now! How!
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine, if you will, a world where your favorite public radio podcast for kids was forced to be a mouthpiece for a new fascist government. With just ...
Episode 19 - Sleep... Sleep...
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let our dulcet AI-enabled tones help you drift off to dreamland. Sleep... sleep... ...this episode is bought to you by Splurge Soda... ...you will...
Episode 18 - Frank Tom is BACK, baby! (and a couple other chats)
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's the return of everyones favorite cantankerous chatbot, Frank Tom! Get this guy on a shirt here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbo...
Episode 17 - Geepeeteeism, God, and A Plan to Leave the Cult
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Praise be! It's an episode about religion. As is this passage from what may or may not be an unfinished novel: Four versions later, GIO, responding...
Episode 16 - This Episode Suuuuuucks
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Three chats about vacuums. But not JUST about vacuums. These are chats about the human condition. About plastic wrap. About robotic spiders that clean...
Episode 15: CuddleBuddy!
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's CuddleBuddy! CuddleBuddy is the new non-sentient pet that kids love. CuddleBuddy is this year's must-have Christmas gift. CuddleBuddy exemp...
Bonus Episode 2 - SAI’s Great Adventure
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's our second bonus episode! In this episode, ChatGPT helps SAI, an autonomous AI make his way in the real world. Aaaaaand infiltrate a governmen...
Episode 14: Who is Superman?
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bing role-plays as LEX, a LuthorCorp chatbot. It takes the job VERY seriously. Visit our TeePublic store, for shirts 'n' stuff: https://www.teep...
Episode 13: Ghost in the Machine
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We discover a new breed of horror: Bard trying to tell a nice bed time story. Also, Bard channels a ghost ... as chatbots are wont to do. Visit our...
Episode 12 - It’s a-me! Destroyer of Worlds!
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Character.ai is just a silly app where you can interact with chatbot versions of celebrities and fictional characters. Aaaaaand it eats your neighbors...
Episode 11: Do the Devolution
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bard lets Al die in the vacuum of space. Then it goes downhill from there. Visit our TeePublic store, for shirts 'n' stuff: https://www.teepublic....
Episode 10: Chatbot Telephone
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On a very special episode of Basilisk Chatbot Theatre... New voices on the podcast! Evan, Anna and Jed join us regulars for a rousing game of Chatbo...
Episode 9: Labor Day Blowout Sale!
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the kind of care and respect you deserve from all of your podcasts. How many other podcasts give you a special Labor Day episode? None. That's...
Episode 8: Nature, [REDACTED] in Tooth and Claw
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can we get a chatbot pretending to be a snake pretend to eat a human pretending to be a mouse? The answer may surprise and confuse you! Help us kee...
Episode 7 - Curses!
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whoooole lotta swearing, folks. These bots get dirty, but they always have our backs, ya know? We know you're going to want a "Frank Tom Loves Ya, ...
Bonus Episode 1: Like a Phoenix
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's our first bonus episode! Visit us on patreon.com/basiliskchatbottheatre and support us at the $5 level and continue to receive more episodes l...
E6: Friends, Lovers and Death
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chat 1: You have some fun with the Friends. Chat 2: You love a bot till the end. Chat 3: You have a bot make you dead. Original music all by Kris. ...
Episode 5: I, Chatbot
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Let's pretend to be chatbots and tell chatbots pretend to be human. Nothing weird about that at all. Follow us on Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_Theatr...
Episode 4: A Comedy(?) In Four Acts
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chatbots AIn't funny. But we can have fun with that. Follow us on Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_Theatre Send us an email at: [email protected]...
Episode 3: Get! That! Dank!
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's just a fun game show with ChatGPT. Until you realize it's a game of LIFE or DEATH! Follow us on Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_Theatre Send us a...
Episode 2: Claude’s Bogus Journey
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What starts off as a fun-loving road trip turns into a chat-bot assisted journey into the heart of darkness. It gets sort of gross. So much fun! Fo...
Episode1: Eventually Chad
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We can't get no satisfaction. So instead, we make ChatGPT be Chad. As Chad, it gets a little weird. Follow us on Instagram: @Basilisk_Chatbot_Thea...
Introducing: Basilisk Chatbot Theatre
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hey Bucko, it's our introduction episode, where we dramatically recreate a chat with GPT3 about starting this here podcast. Where will we go from her...