Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession(arstechnica.com)

6 pointsby quantifiedhace 10 meses2 comments

Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/millions-turn-to-ai-chatbots-for-spiritual-guidance-and-confession/

2 comments

Though I'm sure many will recoil in horror, it makes perfect sense. Modern language models are typically knowledgeable and non-judgemental, especially if you have a question which you fear reprisal from whomever else you might confide in or ask.

Given the concreteness of the output they provide, I'll be quite surprised if there aren't people out and out worshiping language models before the decade is out.

quantifiedhace 10 meses

Confession will be an interesting shtshow. At least when you confessed in church you knew who was keeping tabs. Telling an LLM anything personally difficult is begging for trouble.