General Discussion

Pope Leo XIV recently spoke poetically about the soul crushing effect of replacing human made art with machine-generated AI slop. “Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative”, he told an audience of film makers.

The Vatican has also expressed thoughtful concerns about tools that are primarily useful for fraud. “Much widespread deception is no trivial matter; it strikes at the core of humanity, dismantling the foundational trust on which societies are built.”