Schmid has said the "AI Jesus" was never meant to replace a priest, and instead was implemented to get people thinking about the intersection of the digital and the divine.

News Release 26-Jun-2025 AI blunders: Six-finger hands, two suns and Jesus Christ on a surfboard in a stormy sea Image-generating chatbots hallucinate, fabricate and miss cultural nuances.

With a flood of videos across social media, some of the Bible’s most familiar figures and stories are finding a new audience ...

Despite those rules, NBC News searched for and found two dozen user-generated AI characters on Instagram named after and resembling Jesus Christ, God, Muhammad, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, MrBeast ...