Catholic Group Defrocks AI Priest After It Gave Strange Answers

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.

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

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

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.

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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…