Catholic Group Quickly Defrocks AI Priest Father Justin

[add-sub-mul-div]

You'd think they would quietly move him to a different web site.

[unnamed76ri]

well done.

[rsynnott]

This is one of the more absurd cases of "somehow trying to jam AI into your workflow, because AI!!!" I've seen.

[sublinear]

> The AI priest also told one user that it was okay to baptize a baby in Gatorade.

[nvahalik]

But it has electrolytes. It’s got what sinners crave.

[Suppafly]

I haven't been actively catholic for a while, but I don't think there is any real prohibition against using something like gatorade for baptisms, assuming it was properly blessed.

[cjohnson318]

Even Neal Stephenson probably thought that an AI priest (now lay theologian) was a stretch for Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates in Snow Crash, and yet here we are.