A Catholic AI app promises answers for the faithful. Can it succeed?
Behold: Magisterium AI.
Think of it as ChatGPT for Catholicism, an opportunity to ask a chatbot questions about the faith instead of a human. But the only sources in this large language model are 27,000 documents connected to the church, which has been reckoning with the effects of artificial intelligence on humanity. The company behind Magisterium AI, Longbeard, claims up to 100,000 monthly users and proclaims its mission on its homepage in huge font: 'We're building Catholic AI.'
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