Can LLMs accurately recall the Bible?

Why?

Why do you put a weird computer model between you and a computer and errr Your Faith? Do bear in mind that hallucinations might correspond to something demonic (just saying)

I'm a bit of a rubbish Christian but I know a synoptic gospel when I see it and can quote quite a lot of scripture. I am also an IT consultant.

What exactly is the point of Faith if you start typing questions into a ... computational model ... and trusting the outputs? Surely you should have a decent handle on the literature: It's just one big physical book these days - The Bible. Two Testaments and a slack handful of books and that for each. I'm not sure exactly but it looks about the same size as the Lord of the Rings.

I've just checked: Bible: 600k LotR: 480K - so not too far off.

I get that you might want to ask "what if" types of questions about the scriptures but why would you ask a computer? Faith is not embedded in an Intel Core i7 or an Nvidia A100.

Faith is Faith. ChatGPT is odd.

I had a similar reaction myself -- I'm an escaped fundamentalist and don't personally have the same convictions about stuff like this, but even if it's on a level that amuses me a little, there's something that feels just a bit heretical about it...

Not necessarily in a way where I would judge it though, and I certainly see how that could have use cases. It just feels a little bit like water gun baptisms, conceptually.

One question of a less spiritual nature -- are we strictly talking about recall from within the models themselves? I've never gotten deep enough into this kind of thing to mess with RAG pipelines, but I wonder if direct access to a translation or several would have any impact on its overall effectiveness for this.