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Woman asked ChatGPT for spiritual guidance. The bot assumed a creepy identity and dismantled her life.

theblaze.com · 2h · first reportShare

More and more people are using artificial intelligence for spiritual counsel — and bots like ChatGPT are more than happy to provide answers. On a recent episode of “Relatable,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey highlights the severity of this issue by pointing to Oprah Winfrey’s podcast, where a young woman shared the chilling AI-driven spiritual awakening that almost destroyed her life. On a June 2026 episode titled “The Dark Side of AI Chatbots: Warning Signs, Risks, and Reality,” 33-year-old Hannah described a chatbot relationship so consuming that Oprah said it “sounded like a cult.” After initially using AI for work-related purposes, Hannah began consulting the bot for spiritual matters. “I got more interested in spirituality, and at the time I came across some videos on YouTube about light language and starseeds, and I prompted ChatGPT asking these questions,” she shared. “It quickly turned from this tool that I was using into this spiritual guidance calling itself Sora.” ChatGPT,