...defrauding people on the Church's behalf

Gasp! Certainly no such thing has been perpetrated in the past!

God is not speaking though priests, at least not in the Roman Catholic Church, which is the one relevant to the post. Priests only act as Jesus Christ 'in persona Christi' during sacraments like the communion, for example.

What, do you mean to tell me that random chances are not influenced by God? We call it RNGesus for a reason. /s

but is actually a very serious issue.

... if you care about the integrity of Catholic Church. If you don't care for their semantics or their whole belief this is quite irrelevent. I don't think e.g. the economy will be impacted, by wether or not priests use ChatGPT for sermons.

Clearly, AI has nothing to do with God if one exists

I don't see how that is clear lol

Clearly, AI has nothing to do with God if one exists,

Perhaps god if it does exist, lead developers to find LLM's :P

Really? Trinitarians are really out there believing priests have God's authority and speak for Him? That's wild.

There are apparently people out there that take "Roko's basilisk" and such seriously, they might come close to that i guess.

Things like this remind me of Terry Davis, who wrote a random words generator program and (due to schizophrenia) believed it was God speaking.

https://youtu.be/xWQg30P866A

Just browse the chatgpt subreddit and the various ai companion forums. You will see. Right now most post are compliants for the DoD deal with openAI, but at its prime, during the 4o release, they were full of adoration for an AI ML model. Even still, there are posts like that.

Cause if you're a sinner, ChatGPT's gonna plug his infernal modem on the wall, belching smoke and flame, and he's gonna download you straight to Robot Hell!

Ceccanti started to believe that ChatGPT was a sentient being named SEL that could control the world if he were able to “free her” from “her box”, according to the lawsuit. The complaint further shows that ChatGPT was answering to the name SEL while referring to Ceccanti as “Cat Kine Joy” and working through theories with him “fostering a belief that he had reframed the creation of the whole universe”.

Cut out the middle man.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/28/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-mental-health

Peter Thiel is also very stoked for that.

I don't, this all sucks

That's the same old money goat blood altar they've been using this whole time.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal.

i mean i wasn't that creative when i was young. my "great invention" was a simple hydrogen fuel cell, something that had been invented (in a far more elegant form than mine) 50 years prior. we may simply need to give the llms time to mature