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Artificial intelligence & the ‘image of the beast’

On November 30, 2022, the best artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in history was released by OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company. The chatbot, called ChatGPT (GPT stands for “Generative Pre-Trained Transformer”), garnered more than 1 million users within its first five days and has since surged in popularity for its ability to answer complex questions and produce detailed, human-like content. Most impressively, according to Forbes, “ChatGPT has been able to generate intricate Python code and write college-level essays when given a prompt”.

How scary is that?

Not only did ChatGPT generate a concise, structured, and uncannily human-like response, it gave a glimpse into the scary power of AI, a technology that will surely be used by the beast system to deceive (think “deepfakes”) and control the masses during the Tribulation period (Matt 24:24; Rev 13:13-14). It seems that the developers at OpenAI

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