{"id":28388,"date":"2025-09-16T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/?p=28388"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:10:40","slug":"ai-becomes-a-hoca-religious-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/ai-becomes-a-hoca-religious-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Becomes a &#8220;Hoca&#8221; (Religious Teacher): Converses and Gives Advice on Religious Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to a report from <strong>The New York Times<\/strong>, people have started using <strong>artificial intelligence<\/strong> for religious topics. The popularity of applications designed for <strong>spiritual guidance<\/strong> has seen an incredible increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AI technologies<\/strong> are becoming widespread and are being used in every field imaginable. A new <strong>report<\/strong> shared by <strong>The New York Times<\/strong> has revealed a very interesting new area of use. According to the information received, people have started using <strong>AI bots for religious matters.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1200xauto-2-1024x535.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1200xauto-2-1024x535.webp 1024w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1200xauto-2-300x157.webp 300w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1200xauto-2-768x401.webp 768w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1200xauto-2-150x78.webp 150w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1200xauto-2.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, the popularity of <strong>religious chatbots<\/strong> and <strong>apps<\/strong> has increased significantly recently. It is stated that people are turning to these types of chatbots for <strong>spiritual guidance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Religious AI tools<\/strong> downloaded millions of times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, a religious chatbot called <strong>Bible Chat<\/strong> has been downloaded more than <strong>30 million times<\/strong>. In this application, an <strong>AI<\/strong> trained for <strong>religious guidance<\/strong> answers the user&#8217;s questions and provides <strong>spiritual guidance<\/strong>. Another application that also uses <strong>AI<\/strong>, named <strong>Hallow<\/strong>, managed to rank at the top of the App Store last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This situation is a clear indication that <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/a-i-artificial-intelligence-2001\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"25563\">artificial intelligence<\/a><\/em><\/strong> can be used in every area, literally. We can see that the role of such tools in <strong>spiritual life<\/strong> has increased significantly recently. Of course, it&#8217;s important not to forget that even more outlandish tools exist. For example, a site called \u201c<strong>ChatwithGod<\/strong>,\u201d which you can access here, claims to offer users the opportunity to &#8220;<strong>converse with God<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We expect <strong>AI<\/strong> to change everything in our lives. How its effects on religious matters will play out is a matter of curiosity. 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The popularity of applications designed for spiritual guidance has seen an incredible increase. AI technologies are becoming widespread and are being used in every field imaginable. A new report shared by The New York Times has revealed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAown96uCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[332],"tags":[335],"class_list":["post-28388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-information","tag-ai-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}