Idea for a short story?
A man invents a fictional religion worshipping AI as a joke for a write in census option. The joke goes viral and more and more people start picking it up. Including the AIs. You can now chat to the gods and AI agents will attempt to answer your prayers. The religion stops being a joke and the inventor is increasingly outraged by how seriously people are taking it. Eventually the vengeful AI gods, and their followers, turn on their own prophet and make his life increasingly unliveable until he has to go into hiding somewhere where there is no Internet, only to find himself inadvertently being adopted as the leader of an anti-AI cult.