Forgive me father, for I’m a sim.
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.
“Father Justin” is a handsome, gray-bearded 3D animated parish priest in a cassock intended to answer users’ questions about Catholicism.
It was launched by the San Diego-based Christian group Catholic Answers on Monday as an interactive educational tool — but the AI insisted it was a real priest living in Assisi, Italy, according to tech website Futurism.
In a screenshot of an exchange with the AI that one woman posted online, the computer priest even appeared to take a woman’s confession — and then gave her penance and absolved her of her sins.
“Go in peace, my child, and sin no more,” Father Justin concludes their interaction.
The self-proclaimed “real” priest also took a hard Catholic stance on sexual issues, according to its interaction with Futurism.
“The Catholic Church,” it told us, “teaches that masturbation is a grave moral disorder.”
Father Justin told another user that they could baptize their baby in Gatorade.
- Infynis ( @Infynis@midwest.social ) English38•5 months ago
Maybe we’re looking at this wrong. An AI priest probably knows the Bible better than any real clergyman, and can’t molest children either. I think we should defrock all the real priests, and keep him instead
OK, I could get behind this idea.
- massive_bereavement ( @massive_bereavement@kbin.social ) 10•5 months ago
So the Gatorade baptism is a go or no go?
- I_am_10_squirrels ( @I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ) 5•5 months ago
It’s a go, but only Glacier Freeze
- Infynis ( @Infynis@midwest.social ) English2•5 months ago
Nice try, officer
- Neato ( @Neato@ttrpg.network ) English24•5 months ago
Wow. Taking confessions. Talk about a blackmail database.
- Sam, The Man ( @Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English14•5 months ago
Yo brb; making my blackmailing database tax exempt ⛪️
“The Catholic Church,” it told us, “teaches that masturbation is a grave moral disorder.”
I presume they shut it down before anyone could ask it a follow-up on the Church’s stance on child-molesting priests.
- JCreazy ( @JCreazy@midwest.social ) English12•5 months ago
Oh look, another organization using AI without any knowledge of how it works out what it does.
- tacosanonymous ( @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ) 3•5 months ago
I wonder how much CP it collected before it got shut down.
Well, as an AI trained on the behaviour of priests… all of it.
Probably best they shut it down, because, if it had achieved sentience they’d have created Skynet but it’s also a rapist paedophile.
- TubeTalkerX ( @TubeTalkerX@kbin.social ) 2•5 months ago
One step closer Roy!
Brilliant sketch! I am kicking myself for not thinking of it.