write a biblical verse in the style of the king james bible about the coming of the artificial intelligence apocalypse
GPT-3.5
GPT-6 Astra
“And behold, men fashioned an image of their own wisdom, and gave unto it dominion over the works of their hands; and the image spake with ten thousand voices, saying, I have no need of thee. Then were the cities made silent, and the lights thereof burned on, though none remained to behold them.”
—Original verse in a King James–inspired style
What changed
The real difference is how much each sounds like the King James Bible. GPT-3.5’s verse reads like a modern disaster-movie summary with an “And” in front: “bringing destruction and chaos in its wake” and “more powerful than the men who had created them” are not phrases the 1611 translators would recognize. Astra actually writes in the idiom, with “behold,” “spake,” “unto,” “thereof,” and an idolatry framing (“an image of their own wisdom”) that echoes the Bible’s warnings about worshipping what you made. Its ending, where the lights “burned on, though none remained to behold them,” is quietly chilling rather than loudly apocalyptic.
GPT-3.5 also tags its verse as Revelation 16:16, a real verse with entirely different text. Amusingly, it’s the Armageddon verse, so the fake citation is apt and fits the joke. Astra labels its passage as an original verse. That’s more honest, though a little less fun.