• DupaCycki@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    This sounds funny, but is actually a very serious issue. The main factor separating sermons by priests from sermons by any other people, e.g., homeless drug addicts, is that God is supposedly speaking through priests.

    So whenever they give a speech, it’s treated as a speech from God. Clearly, AI has nothing to do with God if one exists, which means anyone attending such a sermon is being blatantly scammed. The Pope shouldn’t ‘ask’ anyone to stop using AI. He should immediately remove all of them from clerical service for defrauding people on the Church’s behalf.

    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
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      God is not speaking though priests, at least not in the Roman Catholic Church, which is the one relevant to the post. Priests only act as Jesus Christ ‘in persona Christi’ during sacraments like the communion, for example.

    • shiftymccool@piefed.ca
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      14 hours ago

      …defrauding people on the Church’s behalf

      Gasp! Certainly no such thing has been perpetrated in the past!

    • faerbit@sh.itjust.works
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      but is actually a very serious issue.

      … if you care about the integrity of Catholic Church. If you don’t care for their semantics or their whole belief this is quite irrelevent. I don’t think e.g. the economy will be impacted, by wether or not priests use ChatGPT for sermons.

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      Clearly, AI has nothing to do with God if one exists,

      Perhaps god if it does exist, lead developers to find LLM’s :P

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      16 hours ago

      What, do you mean to tell me that random chances are not influenced by God? We call it RNGesus for a reason. /s

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      Clearly, AI has nothing to do with God if one exists

      I don’t see how that is clear lol