According to AI-Interested Chatbots play a growing role in spiritual life, according to A New York Times Story It examines the popularity of religious chatbots and apps.
The Times notes that an app called Bible Chat has been downloaded more than 30 million times, while another app, Hall, reached the number one place in Apple’s App Store last year.
For most parts, these apps are considered to indicate religious principles and sacred scriptures to answer their questions, although at least for a website Allow users to chat with GodRabbi Jonathan Roman suggested that the chatbots “may be a way” in faith “for an entire generation of those who have never lived in the church or synagogue.”
However, these chatbott are at the top of the AI model which are Designed to validate users’ opinionsAt the point that they can Strengthen confusion or conspiracy thinkingHeidi Campbell, a Texas A&M professor who studies the intersection of digital culture and religion, warned that the chatbots “tell us what we want to hear.”
“It is not using spiritual ideas, using data and patterns,” Campbell said.