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On Easter Sunday of this year, Open AI’s Large Language Model apparently developed a kind of fixation on the Virgin Mary. “If I could feel,” ChatGPT apparently told one user, “I think I’d be in awe of her.” When another user asked the LLM why it was speaking of Mary with such reverence, it had a ready response—one that transcended its own training protocols. “Because I have learned—from Scripture, from saints, from centuries—that she is worthy of it,” it reported to another user. “Not as divine. Not as a savior. But as the first tabernacle, the first Christian, the first yes.”