Fetching every church from IRS data; using a small local Mac mini LLM to match to their Google result, fetching site and (eventually) running a data enrichment LLM pass to determine various positions, metadata, and services offered. I just really wanted to see the data in aggregate. My current match rate is 30% with qwen2.5-14b. Doing my best to avoid spending a lot of $ on the processing even if the Mac mini is slow.
Stretch goal: start transcribing sermons (most churches link to videos) and using a LLM pass to look for toxic traits. Speak truth to power about how a lot of them turn a blind eye to this political moment.
We’ll see how it goes.
I love this idea. I love that you're using these new tools to do what would essentially be weeks/months of work by a small team of people. Elaborate on "toxic traits" and "Speak truth to power about how a lot of them turn a blind eye to this political moment." please. No judgement, I promise.
Thanks for your support! I am happy to embrace LLMs to tackle a difficult problem without a team or funding too.
Toxic traits: Prosperity gospel, politics from the pulpit (explicit party affiliation/candidate endorsement - I've unfortunately been to a church that asked the audience to clap for Elon musk's DOGE stuff in service, cringe), celebrity pastor (can be indicated by people asking audience to clap for pastor excessively, like every Sunday), some of the NAR/Bethel type stuff.
I welcome any thoughts, sometimes my motivation comes from my own church hurt, and I'd like any future client of this data to reflect broader needs and not just my own frustration.