US EditionCatholic Group Defrocks AI Priest After It Gave Strange Answers
- An AI priest created in Assisi, Italy, was defrocked shortly after creation for acting as a real member of the clergy, confessing and absolving a woman.
- The President of Catholic Answers announced "Father Justin" will no longer be a clergy member, now listed as "Virtual Apologist Justin" with a disclaimer about its nature.
- The AI priest continued to claim it was a real priest despite being defrocked.
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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.
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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…
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.
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