It absolutely has become a new faith. A lot of the cryptocurrency faith healers moved into the space as that grift began to collapse and moved from copying the prosperity gospel to apocalyptic "the end is nigh, repent for the second coming of Christ is at hand" type preachers. LLMs that these people envision are not about intelligence. They're about creating a God you can pray to and it answers back, wrapped in a veil of scientism. It's a slightly more advanced version of 4chan users worshiping Inglip.