The Pope Has Thoughts on AI Art—And They're Not Flattering

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The Pope Has Thoughts on AI Art—And They're Not Flattering, according to Decrypt. The pontiff says algorithms "lack the spark of humanity," and the Vatican wants to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to protect it. Decrypt News Artificial Intelligence The Pope Has Thoughts on AI Art—And They're Not Flattering The pontiff says algorithms "lack the spark of humanity," and the Vatican wants to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to protect it.

In brief Pope Leo XIV said in an Oct. 2 post on X that there is an "ontological difference" between human art and what machines generate.

25 speech in Paris in which he cited it. The pope posted the message on X, where he has shared AI warnings before.

“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. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity,” the Pope wrote. "Ontological" is philosophy-speak for what something fundamentally is, as opposed to how it looks. His point is, essentially, that a painting by a person and an image from a model can look alike and still be totally different things.