{"id":80996,"date":"2026-03-04T06:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=80996"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:36:47","slug":"devil-worshippers-are-using-ai-exorcists-are-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/devil-worshippers-are-using-ai-exorcists-are-warned\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil Worshippers Are Using AI, Exorcists Are Warned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Exorcists claim they get accustomed to being vomited on, sworn at and having nails spat at them by people possessed by the devil. But experts lining up to teach them new tricks at an exorcism course in Rome say they now face a new threat: AI-fuelled satanism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtificial intelligence is a great power \u2014 a force for both good and evil \u2014 and can therefore be used for devil worshipping,\u201d said Father Luis Ramirez Almanza, a Mexican priest who runs the annual training course for exorcists. \u201cWe believe these groups are using AI to generate images<span class=\"paywall-EAB47CFD\"> of children involved in satanic rites,\u201d he said. \u201cUsing children appeals to them because it\u2019s a form of power being exercised over the innocent.\u201d Father Ramirez said another speaker, Beatrice Ugolini, an academic, will discuss how occult groups in Italy \u2014 thought to total 263 \u2014 are using AI to generate the symbols they use in their rites.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1772606207\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Devil Worshippers Are Using AI, Exorcists Are Warned\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Times: Exorcists claim they get accustomed to being vomited on, sworn at and having nails spat at them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}