The hosts react to a report on for-profit AI Jesus chatbots in South Africa — apps like Ask Jesus, Virtual Jesus, Jesus AI, Text With Jesus, and Ask Jesus run by companies such as Supreme Chaos and Cat Loaf Software. They note the chatbots adjust their theology to what is most popular, read the bots' differing answers on whether hell exists, and laugh at a Swiss church that installed an AI Jesus in a confession booth. The segment lands on the punchline that what helps is pastors who actually know their people.
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