Hundreds of German churchgoers sat through an AI-generated church sermon that included a CG avatar and ChatGPT-generated text.
first reported over the weekend about a special service hosted at the 38th German Protestant Kirchentag, a bi-annual religious convention hosted in the Bavarian town of Nuremberg, Germany. The sermon included several AI-created animated avatars that read off a script created
using OpenAI’s ChatGPT with the GPT-3 language model. Over 300 parishioners showed up for the 40–minute sermon onUniversity of Sienna protestant theologian and self-described AI researcher Jonas Simmerlein was behind the stunt, and he told AP “98%” of the service was created by AI. Simmerlein said he instructed
ChatGPT to act as a preacher, and that it needed to create a sermon that included psalms, prayers, and a blessing at the end. He called the AI’s output “pretty solid” as far as church services go. The convention is centered around a range of topical themes, and this year’s topics included the war in Ukraine, climate change, and—of course—AI. The AI avatars reportedly deadpanned about leaving the past behind and focusing on the present. The audience also laughed at times when an avatar told the congregation “to keep our faith, we must pray and go to church regularly.”40-minute service—including two men and two women.
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