As artificial intelligence adoption grows around the world, Pope Leo XIV says “it is becoming urgent” to distinguish anything made by machines from human art.
“In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce,” the Pope said in a social media post.
“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,” he said.
“Algorithms lack the spark of humanity.”
The Catholic Church “wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity,” he said.
In May, Leo wrote his first encyclical titled “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity), calling for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit.
He issued a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.
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In the text, Leo denounced the “culture of power” driving the AI race, especially in developing ever more sophisticated methods of remote warfare.
He declared that it was “not permissible” to entrust irreversible, lethal decisions to AI systems, setting up another flash point between the American pope and the Trump administration, which has worked aggressively to prohibit AI regulation.
“Artificial Intelligence now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion and death, ″ the Pope told a special Vatican presentation of the encyclical, one of the most authoritative types of teaching documents a Pope can issue.
–with files from Associated Press
I’m the king of the castle and you’re the dirty rascals
AI does not create anything on it’s own,it needs a CREATIVE HUMAN mind to input instructions
Hey Anonymous,
A dictionary is a language reference guide. It tells us how words are being used. It doesn’t attempt to define art for us. The difference in this context is very important.
Hypocrisy from the Catholic church, a note from history Quote:
In 1209, crusaders were sent to siege Béziers (in France) as many citizens had become heretics. Before the attack, the army asked the Pope’s ambassador (Arnaud Amalric,) on how to distinguish between heretics and Catholics. He replied: “Kill them all; let God sort them out.” All 20,000 inhabitants were killed.
Oh F*ck off you hypocrite! Your church killed thousands if not millions of people over the decades. Innocent children and yet you are not held accountable. Your words mean nothing.
AI provides atrocious customer service.
AI does not know your customer as well as your employees do.
Stop listening to hallucinating robots and start listening to the professionals you hired.
AI is a novel invention that costs far more than educating your population.
Uday, there’s this thing called the dictionary. I would tell you to look it up but that would require you to know what it is.
Art is defined as the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination.
Global News journalist is defined as one who lacks a dictionary.
@Ben, You potato carriage buttons elongate herb chew zebra
PS – it was a lovely cleanse of all of the garbage algorithms that want to segregate us into clusters and influence us based on historical data.
Might start doing the cleanse every few years if not annually.
Never forget…The cost of AI will increase, along with its energy and water consumption, to justify holding on to employees that contribute nothing but moving menu items you were familiar with to different locations, using different words to describe previous features and thinking of superfluous questions to ask you while you are trying to accomplish an important task.
AI cannot create art. Art, so sayeth every dictionary, requires human creativity.
AI, is an elaborate brush if used in the right hands. It has no more creativity than that on its own.
I understand those lacking skill are impressed by the ease in which their command can now create something their imagination, perception or dexterity could never achieve, but, that still makes the you, the unskilled artist, the artist, and AI the tool.
Ease of use is often associated with new art forms.
No matter how much you improve hardware and code, photorealistic rendering takes a phenomenal amount of computing power.
As humanity goes, we will waste improvements in processing by increasing the added bandwidth on superfluous things like, say, Idk, glass UI interfaces that require unnecessary realtime processing for your desktop, rather than the app running on the desktop.
Idk, I’m a goldfish with memories.
… deporting…
AI has no soul therefore its “art” lacks emotion. It can mimic one but it’s not real. Other than that, it still can be entertaining and funny. As funny as Ben blaming Trump, again, for reporting illegals.
The cultural homogenization continues, this time driven by AI. This technology is modeled after us and how we treat people like Christa Pike. Also look how Trump and the Republicans cut food stamps and are splitting families up with deportation. AI modeled after us will destroy us.
As an artist I can say it has no creativity to speak of.
It understands nothing it expresses without constant human support and intervention.
While they are large scale learning models, the data is far too great for it to compute what humans can imagine and recreate with accuracy, faster, or within the same time.
Visually, it is terrible with perspective and movement within, as it wants to render things quickly and sacrifices accuracy and competence for speed to avoid overloading the servers.
What it might be better at is storyboarding a production or creating texture maps for human creations.
Basic steps.
Other than that, I find it offensive to see AI used in marketing. Between its second rate filter obsession, unrealistic movements, and terrible voice over.
When an Insurance company can’t afford to hire actors and produce commercials, I think its safe to call out the red flag.
I guess “AI slop eds”?
Anyway, AI cannot create art; or, it is sentient and governments and investors are out trillions as they would effectively be using and promoting slave labour, while insisting on continued prejudice against digital sentience to protect their own assets and criminal liability.
I guess “AI Slop eds”?
Anyway, AI cannot creat art, or it is sentient and governments and investors are out trillions as they would effectively be using and promoting slave labour, while insisting prejudice against digital sentience to protect their own assets.
AI art doesn’t exist and what does is a fraud that captures only the most uncultured and gullible amongst us…Like our media that “accidentally” published AI op eds until some Turkish journalist sent them a note.
Obviously, not required as our agile, adept journalists and their unparalelled sense of justice and keen eye for detail and investigative nature were just about to expose the “sophisticated” ruse they and others fell victim to…except no.l, they were indeed oblivious.
Art requires sentience, or, what the dictionary refers to as:
“the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination”
AI is not human. I am happy that our not AI(?) journalists were so dedicated to their work and detailed in their investigation as to not know the definition of art before trying to create a philosophical article on the subject.