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Catholic Group Quickly Defrocks AI Priest Father Justin

by madpen on 4/29/24, 12:05 AM with 11 comments

  • by add-sub-mul-div on 4/29/24, 1:19 AM

    You'd think they would quietly move him to a different web site.
  • by rsynnott on 4/29/24, 11:10 AM

    This is one of the more absurd cases of "somehow trying to jam AI into your workflow, because AI!!!" I've seen.
  • by sublinear on 4/29/24, 1:23 AM

    > The AI priest also told one user that it was okay to baptize a baby in Gatorade.
  • by cjohnson318 on 4/29/24, 2:30 AM

    Even Neal Stephenson probably thought that an AI priest (now lay theologian) was a stretch for Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates in Snow Crash, and yet here we are.