I mean, at least the LLM is real

Remember when the App Store was nice?

The top ones were wholesome apps and games you bought once for like $3-$5. I remember WolframAlpha and Osmos, or like a copy of the Bible or a funny camera or something.

My glasses are not rose tinted: oh was there crap, but it was proper crap. It wasn't 1000 high budget, heavily marketed SEO clone apps flooding the top of searches and promoted to the top by the store system itself like it is now. It legitimately feels like Apple and Google are in on all these scams because it makes a little short term profit.

A slew of religious smartphone apps are allowing untold millions of users to confess to AI chatbots, some of which claim to be channeling God himself.

There is no way that at least some of those aren’t honeypots. Three letter agencies, other nations, blackmailers, the fruit is just hanging too low. Probably not most of them, I imagine there are also just people who want to make a quick buck and not get sued. But I would not be rolling the dice on which one it was if I was doing anything that could remotely be described as confessing.

Me: You're not god. I am.

ChatGPT: You're right! My mistake. sacrifices a bull to me

that didn't take long

"There is a whole generation of people who have never been to a church or synagogue," A British rabbi named Jonathan Romain told the paper.

And that's a great thing

"Spiritual apps are their way into faith brainwashing."

FTFY

And?

AI is a parrot that will say anything you ask it to

If you tell deepseek to say it is a god, it will do that.

Roko's Basilisk believers are back the big tech. This is not a joke.

Hahaha and I thought I didn't believe in AI before...