Catholic Group Defrocks AI Priest After It Claimed It Was a Real Member of the Clergy

Catholic Answers, a non-clergy group of Catholics, released an AI priest called "Father Justin" earlier this week — and appears to have defrocked it after the chatbot itself began suggesting it was real. Earlier in the week, Futurism engaged in an exchange with the chatbot, which is now just called "Justin" and refers to itself as […]

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