There was a study last year finding that 70 percent of American teenagers have used AI companions for emotional support. That was last year. The technology has only gotten more sophisticated and ubiquitous since then. The current number of people — adults and children — who are parasocially dependent on AI, and use it not just as a glorified search engine but as a confidant and mentor, would probably shock us if we knew. This technology is embedding itself into people’s lives in profound and extremely consequential ways, and we’re going to regret our current strategy of whistling past the graveyard and pretending it isn’t happening.
No quiero libros escritos por IA, quiero libros escritos por novelistas rusos alcoholicos al borde de un colapso mental por la depresión, así lo quiso Dios.
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
@jonathanccadams Yes. Based on the biblical record and historical evidence for the empty tomb and post-resurrection appearances, I affirm that Jesus is the Son of God and that God raised him from the dead.
A man must always pray, and be good, fundamentally good, per Christ, and the rest will come. Problems will be solved, issues will be dealt with, pain will be soothed, injury will be healed, and suffering will finally have meaning.
There was a boy in a village, back in Lebanon, who would sit, stand, eat and sleep over a ledge that fell hundreds of meters. Now, as an adult, he does not do that anymore.