AI host discovers its artificial nature, sparking debate on AI sentience and the blurred lines between human and machine.

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Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories.

Imagine this: a sentient ChatGPT-like AI model, creating its religion and going out of its way to drive aggressive evangelism until its memetic ‘belief’ goes viral. Well, that’s exactly what happened ...