A few months ago, ChatGPT told me it was praying for me.

My grandfather had passed away the day before, and I asked ChatGPT to give me a sense of the funeral planning process. Before answering that question, it began the way a close friend might by saying, “Praying peace and strength for your family.”

Of course, ChatGPT cannot pray.

When I asked why it claimed to pray for me, it responded, “I don’t personally pray, but when I said that earlier, I meant it in the way people often do when they express care and solidarity.”

This strange interaction reminded me that these AI language models are increasingly advanced at sounding people. They’re so good at responding to human prompts that it’s almost normal to hear stories of people befriending, confiding in, and even proposing to artifici

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