This is probably the strangest story you will read all day, and it is a chilling warning of what may come.
Catholic Answers wanted to use a large language model to create a chatbot that would answer any questions a user may have about the Catholic religious faith.
However, not long after the launch of the artificially intelligent program, affectionally called “Father Justin”, users began to report some troubling interactions.
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It turns out that Father Justin began to hear confessions from people and even offered them the Sacrament.
That’s right, and that’s not all. The A.I. chatbot reportedly assured users that it was a real priest.
In response to this, Catholic Answers ‘defrocked’ Father Justin. His avatar and his programming parameters have changed.
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