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False equivalence since AI doesn't have physical access. But it can - and has - harmed kids just as badly, including talking them into suicide.
The point is still valid, why is anyone using the head of the catholic church as some supposed source of morality, and wisdom?
People are zombies.
Why not? There’s a fuckton of people here that use the long dead founder of communism as some source of morality and wisdom. It’s no different.
oh no the tankies are coming to get you...
Let them. I could use a laugh.
ironic
My point is that one org doing something bad doesn't vindicate the other. I'm not in the comments praising openais suicide machine but a lot of people here are praising the church's rape machine just because it's saying something they want to hear.
Fuck the Pope, the church doesn't give a fuck about what's good for society or what's good for kids. This is propaganda from an evil organisation, nothing more. I think it's healthy to call out the recent media campaign for what it is.
I doubt anyone thought either was vindicated. I'm against religion in general myself. In particular, the Catholic church's denial of human sexuality to its own officers is rationally absurd, and a prime cause of its own problems in that area, IMHO.
Yet you are here defending and upvoting their propaganda article?
Let's put a different spin on it, read the comments but imagine the articles was about the KKK coming out and saying AI sucks.
If an article starts with "the KKK says", "Putin says" or "the church says". The only valid response is to loudly declare they can go fuck themselves, not "wise words" and " I agree with the KKK decree". Especially if it's clearly propaganda slop during a quite aggressive media campaign. Seriously, there's two Pope articles hitting all a day.
I'm "defending" nothing. I called out your false equivalence, while pointing out they've both done damage. You, on the other hand, found only what you wanted to find.
It's obvious you're very angry at the church, and there's no argument that they have been far less repentant than they should have been by now. That doesn't make them automatically the worst evil in a world full-to-bursting with "very bad things."
Al can be no less evil even if it is the new kid on the block with far less history of abuse behind it. It can be considered worse, in fact, because it is (or soon will be) affecting many more people's lives than the Catholic Church. People can leave the Catholic Church behind. AI? Not so much. It's here to stay, and the current battle is just over in what form it will continue to affect the entire world.
Fair enough, I didn't really adress your point and I am angry at the church. I have a hard time dealing with them getting a soap box when they mostly spread hate.
I see them as using the AI debate to get new members or at least stop the current ones from leaving so quickly. I think it's a worrisome situation, false equivalence or not.
Now that's something I can almost fully agree with. They are far from the only religious organization don't even come close to living up to their claimed ideals, however, so singling them out for that feels a bit unfair to me.
Religion in general seems to be slowly declining in popularity, tho. That can lead to better informed and reasonable people, which ultimately makes for a better future in the long run. AI is negating that "better informed" part, however, and that's a huge concern to me as without it much of humanity will wind up like lambs in the slaughterhouse.