{"id":25608,"date":"2025-03-07T18:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T02:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25608"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T02:53:01","slug":"ai-powered-church-service-in-germany-draws-a-large-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/ai-powered-church-service-in-germany-draws-a-large-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered church service in Germany draws a large crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, over 300 people attended an experimental\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2022\/12\/openai-invites-everyone-to-test-new-ai-powered-chatbot-with-amusing-results\/\">ChatGPT<\/a>-powered church service at St. Paul\u2019s church in the Bavarian town of F\u00fcrth, Germany,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-church-protestants-chatgpt-ai-sermon-651f21c24cfb47e3122e987a7263d348\">reports<\/a>\u00a0the Associated Press. The 40-minute sermon included text generated by OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT chatbot and delivered by avatars on a television screen above the altar.<\/p>\n<p>The chatbot, initially personified as a bearded man with a fixed expression and monotone voice, addressed the audience by proclaiming, \u201cDear friends, it is an honor for me to stand here and preach to you as the first artificial intelligence at this year\u2019s convention of Protestants in Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/06\/chatgpt-takes-the-pulpit-ai-leads-experimental-church-service-in-germany\/\">arstechnica.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, over 300 people attended an experimental\u00a0ChatGPT-powered church service at St. Paul\u2019s church in the Bavarian town of F\u00fcrth, Germany,\u00a0reports\u00a0the Associated Press. The 40-minute sermon included text generated by OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT chatbot and delivered by avatars on a television screen above the altar. The chatbot, initially personified as a bearded man with a fixed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/ai-powered-church-service-in-germany-draws-a-large-crowd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI-powered church service in Germany draws a large crowd<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6F2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25609,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25608\/revisions\/25609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}