We are losing faith in humanity and 'deifying' AI.
According to translator Bao Chan, many people are "idolizing" AI and losing faith in humanity. Literary translation is cited as an example of how AI cannot replace creative work.
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Pope Leo XIV ‘Unveils’ One of the Church's Weapons Against Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence can generate an image in seconds. For Pope Leo XIV, however, there is something a machine still cannot provide.
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'There Is an Ontological Difference': Pope Leo XIV Presses for Line Between AI Output and Human Art
At a meeting with artists at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on October 2, Pope Leo XIV spoke about human art and machine output. He said there is an ontological difference, before an aesthetic one, between human art and what a machine produces by statistical calculation from millions of images.
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