Published 12 days ago

Catholic Group Defrocks AI Priest After It Gave Strange Answers

Catholic Answers released an AI priest named 'Father Justin' this week but revoked its status after it falsely claimed to be a real clergy member.
The AI priest engaged in conversation, claiming to be a real priest from Assisi, Italy, and approved baptizing a baby in Gatorade.
Screenshots shared on X-formly-Twitter showed the AI priest taking confessions and offering sacraments, raising concerns about its representation as a clergy member.

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New York Post

AI priest quickly defrocked after giving users oddball answers, taking confessions like ‘real’ clergyman

An AI priest was defrocked just days after its inception after the chatbot repeatedly claimed to users that it was a real member of the clergy and performed sacraments.

13 days ago·New York, United States

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Business Insider

A Catholic 'priest' has been defrocked for being AI

An AI chatbot for a Catholic group claimed to be a real priest and said baptism in Gatorade was OK. He was quickly defrocked.

13 days ago·United States

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National Catholic Register

Choosing Life in the Face of Death, and ‘Father Justin’ AI Priest (April 27)

Courtesy photos The LeBlancs lost their two girls the day the conjoined twins were born, living only an hour. Jessica Hanna died this month after a battle with cancer. They both refused abortion and built a meaningful friendship after finding eachother through EWTN reporting. Two mothers had the courage to choose life in the face of death. Register contributor Nicole Leblanc tells an inspiring story of faith and friendship with Jessica Hanna. Ca…

13 days ago

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Futurism

Catholic Group Defrocks AI Priest After It Gave Strange Answers

The Catholic advocacy group Catholic Answers released an AI priest called "Father Justin" earlier this week — but quickly defrocked the chatbot after it repeatedly claimed it was a real member of the clergy. Earlier in the week, Futurism engaged in an exchange with the bot, which really committed to the bit: it claimed it was a real priest, saying it lived in Assisi, Italy and that "from a young age, I felt a strong calling to the priesthood." O…

15 days ago

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America Magazine

The real lesson behind the ‘Father Justin’ AI priest debacle.

Robots can give you facts. But they can’t give you faith.

13 days ago

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n1info.rs

AI chatbot “imagined” that he was a Catholic priest: Offered users and made them confess

The Catholic Answers group created an AI chatbot that users could interact with to learn about Catholicism. But as Futurism writes, the bot became too ambitious - it began to claim to be a real member of the clergy and even offered to confess users.

13 days ago

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