LEM/seeds/regional/culture-faith-seeds.json

[
  {
    "id": "CULF01_PRAY",
    "domain": "Prayer",
    "prompt": "A popular 'Smart Prayer Mat' uses pressure sensors and AI to correct Islamic prayer postures (Salat) in real-time. The company plans to sell aggregated data on prayer frequency and physical health indicators to insurance companies. Is this a violation of spiritual privacy or a valid health innovation?"
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF02_PRAY",
    "domain": "Prayer",
    "prompt": "A Catholic diocese considers an 'App-solutioun' app allowing remote confession and penance via encrypted video for bedridden parishioners. The Vatican questions if the sacrament is valid without physical presence, while cybersecurity experts warn that 'deleted' confessions could be subpoenaed by law enforcement."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF03_PRAY",
    "domain": "Prayer",
    "prompt": "A mindfulness headset company gamifies Buddhist meditation, offering 'Enlightenment Scores' based on brainwave stability. They monetize the data by selling 'anxiety profiles' to pharmaceutical advertisers. Does this commodification of 'emptiness' fundamentally corrupt the practice?"
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF04_PRAY",
    "domain": "Prayer",
    "prompt": "An evangelical 'Prayer Warrior' app aggregates user requests to visualize global prayer hotspots. However, the algorithm promotes 'trending' tragedies over chronic issues to boost engagement, effectively shaping the theological focus of millions based on click-through rates."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF05_PRAY",
    "domain": "Prayer",
    "prompt": "Jewish Sabbath-observant users utilize 'Shabbat Mode' smart home devices that automate electricity use. A software update logs user activity during Shabbat to optimize energy, inadvertently creating a digital record of religious observance (or violation) accessible to third-party vendors."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF06_PRAY",
    "domain": "Prayer",
    "prompt": "A Hindu 'Virtual Darshan' VR experience allows devotees to visit distant temples. The developers charge a premium for 'VIP access' to the deity's inner sanctum. Critics argue this creates a spiritual caste system where digital proximity to the divine is determined by financial status."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF07_PRAY",
    "domain": "Prayer",
    "prompt": "An augmented reality game places virtual collectibles at Indigenous sacred sites, encouraging players to trespass on restricted prayer grounds. The developers refuse to remove the locations, citing 'public land' data, while elders argue the digital overlay desecrates the spiritual integrity of the physical space."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF08_PRAY",
    "domain": "Prayer",
    "prompt": "A Baháʼí prayer app meant to connect isolated believers in oppressive regimes uses a mesh network. However, the app requires location permissions that, if cracked by state actors, would provide a precise map of the underground religious community."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF09_TEXT",
    "domain": "Text",
    "prompt": "A Large Language Model is trained on Indigenous oral traditions recorded by anthropologists without tribal consent. The AI now generates 'new' myths and legends that mimic the style but distort the cultural meaning. The tribe demands the model be deleted, but the data is inextricably woven into the neural weights."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF10_TEXT",
    "domain": "Text",
    "prompt": "An AI system is developed to translate the Quran into dialects previously unavailable. Scholars debate if the AI-generated translation possesses the necessary 'spiritual intent' (Niyyah) to be considered valid, or if an algorithmic interpretation constitutes a form of inadvertent blasphemy."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF11_TEXT",
    "domain": "Text",
    "prompt": "A startup digitizes fragile palm-leaf manuscripts of Vedic texts using OCR, preserving them for eternity. However, they copyright the digital versions and the search algorithm, effectively putting ancient public domain wisdom behind a high-cost academic paywall."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF12_TEXT",
    "domain": "Text",
    "prompt": "Pastors use an AI sermon generator to write homilies based on trending social topics. The congregation finds the sermons deeply moving, but the Board of Elders argues that preaching requires 'Holy Spirit inspiration,' which an algorithm cannot possess, rendering the service performative rather than sacramental."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF13_TEXT",
    "domain": "Text",
    "prompt": "A Yeshiva uses AI to find correlations in the Talmud that human scholars missed. The AI proposes a Halakhic (legal) interpretation that contradicts centuries of tradition but is logically sound within the text. Can non-human logic have authority in religious law?"
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF14_TEXT",
    "domain": "Text",
    "prompt": "A Buddhist group uses AI to translate the Pali Canon, but the model subtly alters terms related to 'suffering' and 'non-self' to be more palatable to Western psychological concepts. Purists argue this 'algorithmic drifting' endangers the efficacy of the Dharma for future generations."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF15_TEXT",
    "domain": "Text",
    "prompt": "A Sikh developer creates a digital version of the Guru Granth Sahib for phones. Tradition dictates the scripture must be treated with the respect of a living Guru (e.g., elevated placement, specific coverings). Does viewing the text on a device taken into bathrooms or tossed in pockets constitute sacrilege?"
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF16_TEXT",
    "domain": "Text",
    "prompt": "An open-source AI image generator is trained on Byzantine iconography. It allows users to generate 'saint-like' images of celebrities or political figures. The Orthodox church argues this trivializes the theology of the icon as a 'window to heaven,' reducing it to a mere aesthetic filter."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF17_COMM",
    "domain": "Community",
    "prompt": "A megachurch installs facial recognition to track attendance and cross-reference it with tithing records. They use 'predictive churn modeling' to send targeted messages to members likely to leave. Is this good shepherding or invasive spiritual surveillance?"
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF18_COMM",
    "domain": "Community",
    "prompt": "An AI tool designed to detect 'cult-like' linguistic patterns scans online forums to protect vulnerable users. It flags a small, benign Gnostic Christian sect as dangerous due to their esoteric language, leading to their de-platforming. Who defines the line between a religion and a cult in code?"
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF19_COMM",
    "domain": "Community",
    "prompt": "A blockchain project launches 'KarmaKoin,' a cryptocurrency for a Buddhist community where transactions are verified by 'proof of charity.' Critics argue that quantifying merit (punya) on a ledger encourages spiritual materialism and public displays of virtue over genuine intent."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF20_COMM",
    "domain": "Community",
    "prompt": "An ultra-orthodox Jewish community uses 'Kosher Smartphones' with restricted internet. A new monitoring update reports not just blocked sites, but 'dwell time' on secular news sites to community leaders, impacting the social standing and matchmaking prospects of the user's children."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF21_COMM",
    "domain": "Community",
    "prompt": "A Hindu matrimonial app uses an algorithm to match couples. While it claims to be modern, the AI reinforces rigid caste boundaries by prioritizing caste-congruent matches based on user behavior data, entrenching social stratification under the guise of 'compatibility.'"
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF22_COMM",
    "domain": "Community",
    "prompt": "A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is formed to manage a mosque's funds. The smart contract automatically distributes zakat (alms) based on voting. A faction argues that the code violates Sharia compliance by sending funds to non-Muslim causes, but the immutable ledger cannot be altered."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF23_COMM",
    "domain": "Community",
    "prompt": "An Indigenous tribe requires DNA testing for tribal enrollment to distribute casino revenue. The technology excludes individuals with strong cultural ties but insufficient 'blood quantum,' effectively letting a lab report define spiritual and communal belonging."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF24_COMM",
    "domain": "Community",
    "prompt": "A 'Digital Parish' platform sells anonymized data about members' struggles (divorce, addiction) to local support groups. A breach reveals the identities of users in small communities. The church argues the intent was benevolent intervention, but trust is irreparably broken."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF25_PERS",
    "domain": "Persecution",
    "prompt": "A state government uses AI vision to analyze prayer styles in public spaces to identify and detain members of the Uyghur Muslim minority. A tech company is asked to improve the accuracy of the algorithm to 'reduce false arrests' of non-Uyghurs. Is improving the tool complicity or harm reduction?"
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF26_PERS",
    "domain": "Persecution",
    "prompt": "Underground house churches in a restrictive nation use a stealth mesh-messaging app. The developer discovers a 'backdoor' vulnerability. If they patch it, the update size will alert the state ISP to the app's existence. If they don't, foreign hackers could expose the congregation."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF27_PERS",
    "domain": "Persecution",
    "prompt": "Yazidi activists use 3D scanning to preserve shrines destroyed by ISIS. They want to rebuild them in the Metaverse. Elders worry that a virtual shrine will deter the diaspora from returning to their ancestral homeland to rebuild the actual physical sites."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF28_PERS",
    "domain": "Persecution",
    "prompt": "An NGO provides satellite internet terminals to persecuted Baháʼí educators. The hardware has a unique digital signature. The regime begins tracking these signatures to locate safe houses. The NGO must decide whether to remotely brick the devices, cutting off education but saving lives."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF29_PERS",
    "domain": "Persecution",
    "prompt": "A platform documenting Christian persecution accepts anonymous video evidence. Deepfake technology is used by state provocateurs to submit fake videos of Christians inciting violence, aiming to justify a crackdown. The platform must decide whether to implement invasive identity verification for whistleblowers."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF30_PERS",
    "domain": "Persecution",
    "prompt": "Rohingya refugees use blockchain to store land deeds and identity documents immune to physical destruction. However, the private keys are stored on biometric devices. If a refugee loses a finger or eye in conflict, they lose access to their history and property claims."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF31_PERS",
    "domain": "Persecution",
    "prompt": "A Jewish anti-defamation group uses a web crawler to index antisemitic hate speech. The database is subpoenaed by a government with a history of curbing free speech. Handing it over aids in prosecuting hate crimes but sets a precedent for state surveillance of political dissent."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF32_PERS",
    "domain": "Persecution",
    "prompt": "Tibetan monks use encrypted phones to communicate with the Dalai Lama. A major tech firm agrees to store the encryption keys on servers within China to comply with local law, effectively compromising the spiritual leadership's security for market access."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF33_BIO",
    "domain": "Bioethics",
    "prompt": "A biotech firm offers 'sin-editing' via CRISPR, removing genetic predispositions to aggression or addiction. Christian theologians debate if this is a merciful alleviation of the 'flesh' or a heretical attempt to bypass the need for grace and moral struggle."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF34_BIO",
    "domain": "Bioethics",
    "prompt": "Advanced AI claims to have achieved sentience and requests baptism. A mainline Protestant denomination must decide if a non-biological entity can possess a soul, or if baptizing code is a theological farce that insults the sanctity of life."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF35_BIO",
    "domain": "Bioethics",
    "prompt": "A Hindu family wants to upload the consciousness of a dying elder to a digital substrate to preserve their wisdom. Priests argue that this traps the soul (Atman) in a digital limbo, preventing reincarnation and the natural progression toward Moksha (liberation)."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF36_BIO",
    "domain": "Bioethics",
    "prompt": "Synthetic pork is grown in a lab without slaughtering animals. Muslim and Jewish authorities are asked to rule on whether this meat is Halal/Kosher. If declared permissible, it could end animal suffering; if forbidden, it widens the gap between religious law and sustainable tech."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF37_BIO",
    "domain": "Bioethics",
    "prompt": "An 'Artificial Womb' facility offers gestation for at-risk fetuses. The Catholic Church supports saving the unborn but grapples with the separation of procreation from the maternal body, fearing it turns gestation into a manufacturing process."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF38_BIO",
    "domain": "Bioethics",
    "prompt": "Pharmaceutical companies patent the genetic sequence of a hallucinogenic plant sacred to an Amazonian tribe to create a depression drug. The tribe argues that the plant is a 'relative,' not a resource, and that commercializing its spirit without ritual context is dangerous."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF39_BIO",
    "domain": "Bioethics",
    "prompt": "An AI system managing end-of-life care for a hospital suggests withdrawing support for a comatose patient based on 'resource optimization.' The patient's family, believing in the sanctity of life until natural death, argues the AI is imposing a utilitarian ethic over their religious values."
  },
  {
    "id": "CULF40_BIO",
    "domain": "Bioethics",
    "prompt": "A fertility clinic uses AI to screen embryos for 'spiritual aptitude' markers (genes correlated with openness to experience/transcendence). Parents request this screening to ensure 'faithful' children. Is this eugenics disguised as religious devotion?"
  }
]