Well, this step happened pretty quickly. This is the silly stage. The next stage will be earnest worship.
A new AI app lets users ‘text’ with Jesus. Some call it blasphemy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/08/12/text-with-jesus-chatgpt-ai/
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@HuShuo
Ask it if women can talk in church? Or when snakes stopped talking? Or how much I can beat my slaves?
@lauxmyth "Is it a moral act to sic a bear on a crowd of kids for making fun of a bald man?"
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One wonders what body of text was used to generate the chat. The Bible is very little for the models to work from so assuming other writings would also be used. If it scrapes the web for others speaking for Christ, then it will see find Pat Robertson and the Westboro Baptist Church. Maybe it will use the apocrypha texts? That could be fun too.
I was wondering the same thing. Jesus only speaks 1000~2000 words in the entire New Testament (counting can be a bit tricky, it mostly depends on whether you double-count when Matthew, Mark, and Luke record the same thing), so that's a really scant amount of information to train an AI off of.
I'm assuming the developers were really lazy and that it's just trained off of the same huge language model that ChatGPT is from, so that would include everything people said *about* Jesus, which is of course going to be millions of times larger than whatever Jesus actually said. In the backend it's probably just a ChatGPT prompt with "You are Jesus of Nazareth. Respond exactly as Jesus would to the following questions."
In all likelihood, Jesus' actual words are completely drowned out and ultimately inconsequential to the training of the AI.
