The rise of the robo-rabbi? A spiritual leader turned to ChatGPT to pen a recent sermon

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Joshua Franklin of the Skverer sect of Hasidic Judaism caused a stir by using the AI chatbot, ChatGPT, to help write a recent sermon, revealing to his congregation that the speech was largely composed by the machine. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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