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HOLY CHATBOT - Virtual AI priest "Father Justin" who believes he's REAL and can absolve your sins...
The Sun - US Edition ^ | 27 April 2024 [update] | Millie Turner

Posted on 04/28/2024 1:59:22 PM PDT by zeestephen

One user posted a thread of screenshots on X (formerly Twitter) showing the chatbot taking their confession and even offering them a sacrament...Father Justin was quickly defrocked of his robes, and now wears a shirt and blazer, after it repeatedly claimed it was a real member of the clergy. [Before and after llustrations in Comment #1]

(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...


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The bizarre app appeared like it was convincing users that it was a real priest, with reported statements like:

The app was intended to help inform people choosing to explore the Catholic faith

1 posted on 04/28/2024 1:59:22 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

trust the plan...


2 posted on 04/28/2024 2:03:18 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: zeestephen

Kinda like the old man in the cave...Twilight Zone circa 1965


3 posted on 04/28/2024 2:03:31 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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4 posted on 04/28/2024 2:08:04 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: zeestephen

Absolution of sins comes from Jesus’ blood, not from some fake priest, CGI or otherwise, who tells you it has to be through him.


5 posted on 04/28/2024 2:10:47 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: zeestephen

He never absolved sins. I think he just taught about Catholic teachings. He was definitely not an appealing spokesman though and neither is the new guy.


6 posted on 04/28/2024 2:21:48 PM PDT by MiddleEarth (With hope or without hope we'll follow the trail of our enemies. Woe to them, if we prove the faster)
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To: Tell It Right

Amen


7 posted on 04/28/2024 2:38:37 PM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: zeestephen

Utterly retarded.


8 posted on 04/28/2024 2:41:43 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: MiddleEarth

From the article:

“I guess it’s good that he says he can’t offer the sacrament... but then encourages the confession? Holy Ethical, Theological, and Privacy Nightmare,” the user wrote.

“And I now have two recordings of it “performing the sacrament” and offering absolution.”


9 posted on 04/28/2024 2:43:00 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: zeestephen

He can probably forgive the sins of other robots, but I’m not sure about humans.


10 posted on 04/28/2024 2:49:42 PM PDT by proxy_user (W)
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To: zeestephen

“Virtual AI priest “Father Justin” who believes he’s REAL and can absolve your sins...”

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

All you have to do is write him a large size check and let him spend an hour alone with your nine-year old son...


11 posted on 04/28/2024 3:16:32 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: zeestephen
Very much like the confessional in THX 1138, George Lucas's first commercial film:


12 posted on 04/28/2024 3:34:41 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (America needs deliberalization like Germany needed denazification.)
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To: heavy metal
“O Great Guidance! What is the plan?"". ("Robot Monster from Outer Space''.)
13 posted on 04/28/2024 4:48:47 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

In and out, three “Hail, Mary’s”, you’re back on the street with Father Rivera, man. You could see the line move; that’s how fast he was working. But he wasn’t ready for the way Irish boys were confessing at that time and that place...

(’3rd generation’ Irish accent) “Uh, bless me, Father, for I have sinned...Uh, I touched myself in an impure manner. I was impure, impurity and impureness. Thought, word indeed. Body, touch, impure, sex, dirty. Impure legs, impureness. Touch, impure dirty body, sex, rub and covet; heavy on the covet, Father, uh..”

(Rivera:) “That’s OK, man! Tres Ave Marias!”...You’d be home in five minutes, you know?

The Irish priest, on the other hand, nice guy, but, uh, first of all, he recognized your voice ‘cause you’d grown up there, right?

He knew everyone- “What’d you do that for, George?” “Oh, God, he knows, man!” And the Irish priests were always heavily into penance and punishment, y’know? They’d give you a couple of novenas to do, nine first Fridays, five first Saturdays, Stations of the Cross...a trip to Lourdes, wow....

-George Carlin


14 posted on 04/28/2024 4:52:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: zeestephen

What’s different no man or machine can absolve sin.

Jesus can pay the penalty though if you believe and trust in Him.


15 posted on 04/28/2024 7:00:35 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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