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Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession
Bible Chat hits 30 million downloads as users seek algorithmic absolution.
In her report, Lauren Jackson examined "faith tech" apps that cost users up to $70 annually, with some platforms claiming to channel divine communication directly. But while that service was an intentional experiment with congregants aware they were hearing machine-generated text, today's faith tech apps blur the line between human spiritual guidance and algorithmic pattern matching, with millions of users potentially unaware of the distinction. What faith-seeking users may not realize is that each chatbot response emerges fresh from the prompt you provide, with no permanent thread connecting one instance to the next beyond a rolling history of the present conversation and what might be stored as a "memory" in a separate system.
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