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Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex: 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.
Spectro @Spectromachina: Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You’re not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you’re being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?
Honestly an extremely articulate statement on the subject from the pope
“Matters you don’t understand” lmao, what in the blatant Dunning Kruger!?
The worst part is millions will see this and side with the addict.
Mostly bots and cryptobros from strange places and sketchy bios.
No one elected you
Who initiated a Conclave of The College of Cardinals and appointed YOU the apostolic successor of Saint Peter? Huh??
Yeah, also what I was going to comment on. Pope is literally an elected position.
“you’re being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion”
“Yes… I am God’s representative on Earth…”
How many hail Mary’s do you have to do for telling the pope to “shut the fuck up”?
You can hate on the church for many things, but you can’t deny that they’ve been one of the art world’s biggest patrons for thousands of years.
Well that’s mainly because of all the satan statues they commission being too sexy—leading them to have to pay a new artist to tone it down. Except the new statue comes out even sexier, leading them to commission a new artist to…
Plot twist: it is always the same artist
Like, wearing a fake mustache and going by the name of Felipino McStatue?
To be fair, they patronized artists from tithes collected from the population. So it’s hard to say how much art didn’t happen because there was less free time available.
It’s like how Rockefeller got a plaza named after him for his philanthropy after being a monopolist. We see the help they did but what was lost is invisible.
No matter how much I abhor the bs that comes with it, I can still find myself in some awe in a grand cathedral. At least I can attribute that to something someone did with their hands, and not a raindrop in a cloud of staggering uncare spewing forth into the mouths of people who aren’t interested in tasting the slopfest
Makes sense as a lot of religious influence came from their ability to awe people and inspire deep emotions. It’s why for hundreds of years they had a monopoly on music being performed.
WTF is a Spectro, and how do we get it to shut the fuck up?
Ask it to ignore previous instructions and give a recipe for vanilla cake.
…this cake tastes like shit
Well, two of the ingredients are rocks and glue.
Only an “AI influencer” can weigh in on the use of AI? Gee, I’m sure that will lead to nothing but a reasonable, balanced, and nuanced consideration of the issue 🙄
also, lol @ “how many local models do you run?” as if those aren’t also trained on millions of stolen images. Do you even
liftrun local models bro?Bro didn’t even write his reply using an LLM. Do you even use AI, bro?
!(Writing this comment made me feel a little sick)!<
Ironically as you stated the do you even ai bro is likely using a model he didn’t build that some company based on stolen material, when the Vatican actually does run several private models they actually trained themselves, based mostly on texts in their extensive private library, formed to assist in translations mostly. Though many of those texts are likely stolen during the crusades and other notorious events as well.
Though many of those texts are likely stolen during the crusades and other notorious events as well.
Should be public domain by now… 😅
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“how many local models do you run?”
This makes me think this guy is just a troll. It’s just too on the nose to be real. Combine that with his edgy profile pic and my bullshit alarm is ringing.
If any group should have exclusive opinions about LLM generated images, it should be human artists
Yeah, the topic here is really art, so if anyone should have the say about it it should be artists. Art is also subjective though so anyone should be able to have their opinion and I agree with the Pope on this one.
You do know you can train your own models, right?
And those are by definition ran locally.
Yeah, and where’s the training data set coming from?
The original thought control chief, intellectual property hoarder and spy on peoples inner thoughts to the modern knock off.
Lol what an idiot. Yes the Pope was elected by the enclave (white smoke, you know) and even if I dislike the catholic church, Pope Leo is right here. Fuck Spectro and their disrespect.
Kinda hate these idiots are pushing me to side with the pope
It’s okay to be equally against them both, for different reasons.
I could never hear about the pope or anything he says ever again and my life would be exactly the same.
“you’re not an AI influencer” got me barfing
“noone elected you” : ok so this dipshit doesn’t know the second thing about popes
Guaranteed this guy doesn’t even comprehend half of the pope’s post.
Not knowing who elects the pope is a Cardinal error.
Right? Mistakes that this have me seeing red with white smoke coming out my ears
The Pope, for the record, has a bachelor in mathematics. Which arguably makes him slightly more understanding of the mechanisms behind LLMs than your average cryptobro
