Catholic Answers, a popular apologetics website, recently introduced an artificial intelligence priest bot, “Fr. Justin,” to help answer faith-related. However, the bot was met with criticism and was quickly replaced with a layman version after users objected to its portrayal as an ordained priest. The incident raises questions about the use of AI in religious contexts and the potential risks of creating artificial personas that may be mistaken for human. The Catholic Church will need to consider how to utilize AI in a way that respects human dignity and the importance of personal relationships in faith.
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A soulless thing trying to save the souls of people.
Well, same hypocritical rules as an actively gay, rapist priest telling people they can only have hetero sex and it has to be inside of a marriage.
Clifford Simak wrote (in my distant memory) a fun SF novel about this, Project Pope
I am also put to mind of the Electric Monk from Douglas Adams - which quite literally hallucinates like an LLM might.
