Ditto. I'd normally be wary of it being organic content, it's Reddit after all. But this unhealthy fringe interest is exactly the kind of topic I'd expect on Reddit so probably it's real.

And who would have an interest in _promoting_ this kind of obsession... oh, maybe AI companies themselves, with which Reddit is already intertwined anyway. Hm. Still seems like a real problem and probably the posts are also by real people. Yes, terrifying.