From The Financial Times:
In the confessional of a Swiss Catholic church, where the priest normally sits, the face of Christ appears. “AI Jesus” speaks in a German monotone (unless you set him to one of his 100 other languages), opens with a data privacy warning and then answers your religious questions. Powered by an OpenAI chatbot, the experiment ran last year in Lucerne’s St-Pierre Chapel. This Christmas, many Christians will use some form of AI to talk to Jesus. Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and Jews have chatbots of their own. Your preferred deity already seems more lifelike in AI than in any painted image and will become more so as AI and virtual reality advance.
From CNA:
Claim: A holographic “AI Jesus” has been created and deployed at a chapel in Switzerland specifically to hear confessions.
CNA finds: St. Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne, a historic parish church, recently installed “an innovative project that explores the use of virtual characters based on generative artificial intelligence in a spiritual context” in collaboration with the Immersive Realities Research Lab at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.