Hundreds attend chatbot-led church service in experiment

By Associated Press

Jun 10, 2023 6:30 pm

FUERTH, Germany: The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul's Church in the Bavarian city of Fuerth to rise from the pews and praise the Lord.

The ChatGPT chatbot, personified by an avatar of a bearded Black man on a huge screen above the altar, then began preaching to the more than 300 people who had shown up on Friday morning for an experimental Lutheran church service almost entirely generated by AI.

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