A.I and Religion

[Nay_Sayer]

This question came about when I helped my mom with her Facebook account a few days ago.  She wanted to leave a few groups she was in.  Her timeline is filled with a lot of algorithm-pushed religious stuff, which is fine.

The video reels on her feed are mostly stuff like Joel Osteen saying something fluffy or some sad story that was "solved"  with prayer set to uplifting music.

Anyway, a few were A.I generated videos, going into the rabbit hole. The videos are all of non-existent faith healers doing all sorts of things. The ones I saw included: a Bird flying out of a woman's affected leg, a Guy with a swollen stomach and head vomiting tons of fish, and a guy going from looking bloated in a wheelchair shirtless to crying smoke and suddenly sprouting a 3-piece suit.

That's just the videos. There are countless weird religious A.I images (Usually a kid who built a giant Jesus statue out of bottles or sand or whatever)

I know Facebook is a clusterfuck hive of unregulated slop. I still wonder with A.I improving more and more. Will we be seeing an increase in miracle claims and the like with people citing things like "Look at this video/picture of Jesus peeking through the clouds"?

[Paraselene]

AI is a more advanced version of photoshop. So long as we accurately label the generated content, the way we do with memes and satire, then we can continue to accept the technology as the inevitable revolutionized tool it is.

[Angrboda]

This question came about when I helped my mom with her Facebook account a few days ago.  She wanted to leave a few groups she was in.  Her timeline is filled with a lot of algorithm-pushed religious stuff, which is fine.

The video reels on her feed are mostly stuff like Joel Osteen saying something fluffy or some sad story that was "solved"  with prayer set to uplifting music.

Anyway, a few were A.I generated videos, going into the rabbit hole. The videos are all of non-existent faith healers doing all sorts of things. The ones I saw included: a Bird flying out of a woman's affected leg, a Guy with a swollen stomach and head vomiting tons of fish, and a guy going from looking bloated in a wheelchair shirtless to crying smoke and suddenly sprouting a 3-piece suit.

That's just the videos. There are countless weird religious A.I images (Usually a kid who built a giant Jesus statue out of bottles or sand or whatever)

I know Facebook is a clusterfuck hive of unregulated slop. I still wonder with A.I improving more and more. Will we be seeing an increase in miracle claims and the llike with people citing things like "Look at this video/picture of Jesus peeking through the clouds"?

"If you build it, they will come."

[Mr Greene]

This question came about when I helped my mom with her Facebook account a few days ago.  She wanted to leave a few groups she was in.  Her timeline is filled with a lot of algorithm-pushed religious stuff, which is fine.

The video reels on her feed are mostly stuff like Joel Osteen saying something fluffy or some sad story that was "solved"  with prayer set to uplifting music.

Anyway, a few were A.I generated videos, going into the rabbit hole. The videos are all of non-existent faith healers doing all sorts of things. The ones I saw included: a Bird flying out of a woman's affected leg, a Guy with a swollen stomach and head vomiting tons of fish, and a guy going from looking bloated in a wheelchair shirtless to crying smoke and suddenly sprouting a 3-piece suit.

That's just the videos. There are countless weird religious A.I images (Usually a kid who built a giant Jesus statue out of bottles or sand or whatever)

I know Facebook is a clusterfuck hive of unregulated slop. I still wonder with A.I improving more and more. Will we be seeing an increase in miracle claims and the like with people citing things like "Look at this video/picture of Jesus peeking through the clouds"?

Answer; yes.

The ai religious stuff is fairly common, personally I find the deepfakes more disturbing. I had vids claiming to be 'Warren Buffet' and 'Sarah Paine' in the past week, quite worrying to see how many people in the comments thought they were legit.

[Thumpalumpacus]

My own opinion is that AI will exponentially increase the bullshittery we have to wade through. We're already seeing it in history vids. It will happen with religion too.

AI appeals to the lazy-minded. You can do the math on that.

[Aoi Magi]

If someone actively avoids using the thinky-thinky parts of their brain, does it even matter how advanced or well-crafted the bullshit is?

[Mister Agenda]

I've heard that to someone who already knows what they're talking about, they find AI has about a 15% error rate. That's way too high. I've gotten wildly wrong answers to questions that involved calculations, which is the one thing AI should be good at.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I've heard that to someone who already knows what they're talking about, they find AI has about a 15% error rate. That's way too high. I've gotten wildly wrong answers to questions that involved calculations, which is the one thing AI should be good at.

Here are some pictures of aircraft I've culled from my favorite aviation forum. You being former USAF, I know you'll see my point immediately:

Allegedly an F-86:



Don't know which a/c this is supposed to be, perhaps an Avro Lancaster? At any rate, AI doesn't seem to understand the issues with asymmetrical thrust, among other problems with this depiction:



There's so much wrong with this one I don't know where to start:



... and it goes on. The thread where I originally saw these examples of AI "accuracy" is 24 pages of 20 replies per page, and has plenty more monstrosities.

[Mister Agenda]

LOL, the first F-86 I've ever seen with a propeller! Looks more like a P-51 to me, but I was better at ID-ing Russian aircraft than ours.