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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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The Pope will change his mind with Claude Opus 5.2

If the Pope doesn't start spending every waking minute in a CC terminal he will be left behind and lose his job. /s

Stephen Wolfram is the Antichrist - https://youtu.be/-yzdjziS-bo

Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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Comapring the assassination of a president by a pro-slaver to a scholarly and political dispute that ended up with house arrest in a villa, where he wrote and published his most important work, is a bit wild. The Church has done much, much worse things than the dispute with Galileo.

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While I agree that the various versions of the Bible people are using have many immoral teachings, including slavery, what does that have to do with whether Galileo's trial is a damning example of anti-science work in the Catholic Church?

Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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I'm glad that priests are well known for always obeying rules and never abusing their position. /s

I don’t understand why you’re downvoted. “No priest would ever break rules” is such a strong and ridiculous claim that I thought solatic was trolling.

It's alluding to something off-topic, with a hint of "edgy-ness"

Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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No priest will feed sufficient context about their community into the context window - even if they were skilled enough to do so, unless the model was locally hosted, doing so would be a violation of their vows of silence. Good homilies are written with the particular community in mind. If it were more effective to write a homily for a generic public, the Vatican would have started publishing standard homilies long a…

You’re right that a priest can’t (and shouldn’t) dump private pastoral context into a prompt. But context doesn’t have to mean identifiable confession details.

I’m building BibleGuided, and one thing we’re adding is a church feature where congregants can opt in to sharing prayer themes, and leaders can see aggregated and anonymized trends over time rather than identities. That’s enough to shape a homily toward what people are actually struggling with, without violating confidentiality.

If anyone has experience with privacy thresholds (minimum group sizes, differential privacy), I’d love pointers.

Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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The Vatican has really smart people in there, regardless of how you feel about the whole thing. I recommend anyone interested in the topic to give a read to: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu... "ANTIQUA ET NOVA Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence" I was quite impressed at how much they "get it".

There must be something missing if they are religious though. Like some sort of critical thinking isnt there.

Selective reasoning is a hell of a drug.

Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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Your village had proper healthy capitalist market. In mine, there was complete religious monopoly.

Healthy capitalist market is one helluva oxymoron

It's not an oxymoron: just a cryptid. Read The Wealth of Nations.
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