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Your comment has a very strong AI stench.
A comment about how nobody can tell facades from the real thing — and the first response is someone trying to tell. I appreciate the live demo.
Touch grass
Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
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Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
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Bring on the Electric Monks ...
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I think you are grossly missing the point.
That AI can do it better - by what dimension? - than the priests is arguable, but the reason for a priest to write one is reflection, connection..
Have you ever considered that possibly performing something is not only a mean to some output but that the process is the thing?
That may or may not translate to your coding analogy, but for the article comment you pose, I think you are way off.
Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
#24I wish the Catholic Church would use that approach more often.
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They could even finally be a source for good if they’d actually use some of the billions they collect. Has anyone actually directly encountered a single vatican sponsored charity or program in the wild? It seems quite a morally bankrupt organisation to me, and i’m not sure what if anything it really has to do with Christianity or Christians anyore.
From the Wikipedia page on the Catholic Church: "By means of Catholic charities and beyond, the Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of education and health care in the world."
Just yesterday I went to see a presentation of a priest appointed to a massive parish in the rural area of South Sudan, setting up schools and bringing in aid.
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I genuinely don’t understand AI people anymore. Like the cognitive gap is so huge that I feel like I’m from another planet now. Im not religious, but automating religion is so absolutely meaningless that it boggles my mind. You could have a machine emit million of prayers up to heaven per second, but why would you?
And despite what you think, most of us can tell apart AI generated content from the genuine thing. I am, however, starting to believe AI bros are being sincere when they tell us that they can’t. Every time someone gives me that tired “well how do you know we’re not just stochastic parrots too!” crap, I’m getting a little closer to taking their word for it. Maybe they are just that.
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The AI bros believe in and promote superficial woowoo. They are cult leaders and con men, not an authority on anything else. I wouldn't take advice from them on anything.
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I'm not religious in the least bit, but this is a case where I'll take of the words of a guy with significant influence saying we shouldn't let a machine make our minds irrelevant as a win.
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#30When you stop to think of it, historically people have told their secrets to the church, now they also tell them to AI. There is some kind of relation there, the power that people willingly give to an organization. The Ads are coming so I guess people will start to think about it a bit more.
To the best of my knowledge, traditional confessions have always been processed locally, not sent upstream¹.
AFAICT, it is much harder to get a priest to reveal your confession than it is to get a log of your ChatGPT sessions.
¹) I first wrote "not sent to the cloud", but if God is all-knowing, records of all sins are already in the cloud, just not accessible by support staff.