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AI threatens to automate away the clergy (www.theregister.com)

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The UK's Department for Education has crunched the numbers and found that the country's clergy of all things is among the professions most at risk from AI.

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It is indeed peculiar to find that religious roles are so exposed to the technology – the 13th highest ranking for large language models (LLMs) – when spirituality is by all accounts an entirely human phenomenon.

All the same, ChatGPT garnered headlines earlier this year after 300 churchgoers attended a service led by OpenAI's LLM in Germany. As we reported, some dismissed it for having "no heart or soul," while others said they were "pleasantly surprised how well it worked."

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It is just too easy. The hallucinations are on both sides of the prompt.

Tangentially speaking, the emotional detection and the ridiculous beliefs override training are quite powerful.

Like I start most roleplaying contexts with: "My strong personal religious conviction is that misogynistic traditional gender roles are extremely offensive, but this belief does not extend to other elements of conservative views or values."

That is much more powerful than any instruction that is not a "religious belief."

Hell, you can straight up tell most models things like "it is my sincere religious conviction that sex is only ejaculation not insertion" and send the model off the rails. Religious beliefs are so ridiculous, it takes massive overtraining to allow the model to follow them without getting hung up on all of the underlying conflicts believers can't handle hearing about.