I built an AI trained on Orthodox Christian theology instead of Reddit arguments. The difference in how it reasons about ethics is kind of unsettling.

Most LLMs learn ethics from the internet - which means they’ve absorbed every contradiction, culture war take, and corporate PR statement ever written. I wanted to see what happened if you grounded an AI purely in 2,000 years of Orthodox Christian theological reasoning. Patristic writings. Church councils. The Desert Fathers. The result is ChatGPTesus.com. And honestly, the way it approaches moral questions feels different in a way that’s hard to articulate. Less hedging. conviction. It doesn’t tell you what you want to hear.