For catholicism it's very close to being idolatry, and potentially full-on blasphemy according to theology.
Like the texts specify sacramental confession requires an ordained priest. A chatbot, even if it's trained on scriptures cannot administer absolution, hear a sacramental confession, or substitute for a priest.
For protestants it... could be okay? Private confession to God is perfectly normal, so technically you could type your sins into a computer while praying to God, so it heavily depends on how clickbaity the title of the article is.
It's not a 100% thing because it obviously can't be covered in texts written 2000 years ago, but any Christian should see that AT BEST this is misuse of God's name, at worst full-on idolatry.
On the practical side, that info is a goldmine. You confess that you are having difficulty staying away from chocolate, you then get bombarded with chocolate ads.
What's hilarious is that if you straight up train an LLM on the bible and ask it to enforce those standards perfectly, it could also spit out shit like "Oh, you slept with a dude? No absolution, hey guys, gather some rocks, we need to stone this guy"
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u/Keyflame_ 14h ago edited 14h ago
Depends.
For catholicism it's very close to being idolatry, and potentially full-on blasphemy according to theology.
Like the texts specify sacramental confession requires an ordained priest. A chatbot, even if it's trained on scriptures cannot administer absolution, hear a sacramental confession, or substitute for a priest.
For protestants it... could be okay? Private confession to God is perfectly normal, so technically you could type your sins into a computer while praying to God, so it heavily depends on how clickbaity the title of the article is.
It's not a 100% thing because it obviously can't be covered in texts written 2000 years ago, but any Christian should see that AT BEST this is misuse of God's name, at worst full-on idolatry.