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.

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A Catholic 'priest' has been defrocked for being AI

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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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…

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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.

Grupa Catholic Answers napravila je AI četbot sa kojim su korisnici mogli da komuniciraju kako bi učili o katoličanstvu. No, kako piše Futurism, bot je postao previše ambiciozan - počeo je da tvrdi kako je pravi pripadnik sveštenstva, pa čak i nudio da ispovedi korisnike.

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