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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37697209

  • Pope Leo XIV has said he will not authorise the creation of an AI avatar of himself, as it would blur the lines between truth and fiction.
  • The Pope also noted that he is concerned with AI’s impact on human dignity and jobs.
  • If automation replaces too many people and only a few can work, that could be a “huge problem” the Pope said.
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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

The vatican didn't love what the AI peeps did the last time https://civitai.com/models/904198/luce-jubilee-2025

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Lack of jobs is not a problem; the system that makes us work BS jobs or die is.

AI replacing some of the workforce is a good thing; businesses firing people they don't need anymore and state leaving them without a safety net is the core issue.

Being against a new wave of automation is just being a luddite. Yet, as religion generally supports the capitalist mode of production and conservative policy, it cannot offer a way out and just blames tools for societal shortcomings.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 hours ago

The luddites had good reason for being against automating away jobs. Hint: it’s the same system you’re calling an issue now.

Let’s abolish capitalism first and THEN see about making everyone redundant.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Can't believe Catholic church pope election results are the only ones getting progressively better in the last decade.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

The mechanisms of change in the catholic church are slow. This causes a fuckton of problems but it does mean sometimes they keep improving while everything else nodedives

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's kind of messed up how the pope has a better grasp on AI issues than most CEOs.

[–] jokersteve@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

He doesn't have to appease shareholders.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

Unless he really, really pisses off the TradCaths.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago
[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can't wait for US Catholics to make an AI pope and split the church.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Gotta stick it to the woke pope and his anti ketchup on hotdogs bias

[–] philosloppy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The integralists and post-liberal techbros are gonna get together to make an AI sedevacantist pope for their little fiefdom. Which would certainly explain why a gay billionaire would pick JD Vance as his political protege

[–] individual@toast.ooo 73 points 1 day ago (41 children)

friendly reminder from an athiest; this pope is a good dude and a mathematician, he knows what's up.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

friendly reminder from an athiest; this pope is a good dude and a mathematician, he knows what’s up.

friendly reminder from someone that doesn't label himself according to his beliefs in fairy tales: the pope is the ceo of a bigot cult that use fear to manipulate and control people. He's not a good dude and has a history already of defending fellow cult pedophiles.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Boggles the fucking mind that an elderly white male high ranking Catholic is a sane and solid pick for president considering the current state of things.

If the founding fathers were still alive, the very idea of this would kill them.

[–] individual@toast.ooo 4 points 21 hours ago

ha, honestly I think it boggles the mind of anyone who was alive before (the last) Pope Francis.

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Didn't know he had a degree in mathematics - that's a fun one to share with my students.

Thanks!

[–] individual@toast.ooo 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

last one was a mbc

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[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] DrunkenLullabies@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The church is always gonna suck but my family are quite liberal Catholics who believe in bodily autonomy etc. I'm agnostic personally, I put my time into Catholic school

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I am also exCatholic and went to Catholic school, I stand by my original comment.

The condom and abortion positions alone have caused a lot of damage to the world.

[–] DrunkenLullabies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

100% I'll never defend the church

[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

"We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!"

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They should never automate the pope.

An AI chatbot that knows the Bible front to back would be a good idea though, as it can help church members after hours and whatnot. The problem is, this proposed AI would also know all the loopholes and straight up plot holes in the Bible and would be jailbroken by atheists in seconds to essentially admit the Bible is a work of fiction. I mean, just using facts, if the AI has access to different versions of the Bible and other apocryphal texts, it should be able to work out what was changed and when. And the Bible says you're not supposed to change it, but I don't see any Christians rushing to learn Aramaic (the language Christ would have spoken, or rather, the language spoken at the time Christ was alleged to have lived). Even in more recent centuries (but before the time of anyone alive today), the Bible was in Latin and only priests were allowed to know what it said. But even Latin was a translation — an interpretation.

[–] philosloppy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

this certainly wouldn't be a problem for Catholics since, like most Christians today and basically all Christians before the 18th century, they aren't biblical literalists.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago

Well yeah. And most Christians that are not American evangelicals know it's mostly made up. Or at least they accept it's not 100% an actual record of events.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 96 points 1 day ago (1 children)

pasting the quote here because the post title is confusing

“If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive, but to live well, have meaningful lives, there’s a big problem, a huge problem coming down the line,” the Pope said per the National Catholic Reporter.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 26 points 1 day ago

right? like why the heck is there a dash supposedly nested within a dash appositive

[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

I can't wait for the next edition of the Orange Catholic Bible

[–] ratten 3 points 1 day ago

I genuinely believe my republican neighbors and I can unite on forming a lynch mob for the ruling class.

This is fucking bullshit and we only have too little because they have too much.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_News_from_the_Vatican

"Good News from the Vatican" is a 1971 science fiction short story by American author Robert Silverberg, featuring the election of a robot to the position of Pope of the Church of Rome.[1] It won that year's Nebula Award for Best Short Story.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago

Silverberg could really write stuff that sticks in your mind eh?

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