• @[email protected]
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      To be fair if you make an AI and ask it to be an authentic catholic priest you’d essentially have to reward it for such actions because it understood the assignment. Now why you’d make such an abomination in the first place that I don’t know. The ways of the lord and all that…

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        Turns out “the ways of the lord” = capitalism. That’s probably why he condemned his socialist son to torture and crucifixion; for the crime of empathy! God was like “Helping the poor? Absolutely fucking not!”.

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          The history of all Religions is as a control mechanism used to make people self police in the absence of a formal law enforcement system.

          So that’s why heinous deeds that don’t threaten the power structure get a pass.

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    I have been in IT for 20 years, have both a BS and MS in Information Technology, and I will never understand why EVERYONE has such a hard-on for AI; especially given its track record of “hallucinations”.

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        Much of the craze is almost religious. You have for example Singularitarianism. Basically “Man creates AI, which will create artificial general intelligence, which will create artificial super intelligence, which will bring us the singularity, release us from drudgery and give us eternal life.”

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      You have been in IT for 20 years and don’t understand this? Has your career not made it abundantly clear that the average person is completely computer illiterate and has no idea what AI even is? How many people have you had to assist in 20 years who insist that they have tried every possible solution, only to find out that something isn’t even plugged in or turned on?

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        And that high level management drives decisions about what technologies to adopt, when they know nothing about it.

        Some sales guy on the golf course told them about it.

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        I made a mistake in my comment; I failed to clarify that I was referring to the IT industry and not your every day layman. For example, I work under two levels below our CIO/Vice Chancellor (i.e. second in command from the Chancellor/President) of a university, and despite all of the evidence available to them, they still wish to shove AI down our throats.

        I will also be interviewing with an IT company next week who prides themselves on “everyone at every level being engineers” who espouse AI coding as the next level for their internal frameworks.

        These are the people who are supposed to know better.

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      its the potential of AI that people have a hard on for. look how far AI has come in a mere 5 years. now imagine 5 more, or even 20 more.

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      I don’t doubt that you’re good with technology but, I’ve met MANY people in the information technology field, even with their MS, who were fucking idiots and barely knew shit about technology outside what they needed to know for their specific job.

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        “I don’t doubt you’re good with technology, but I doubt you’re good with technology.”

    • wildncrazyguy138
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      Man hallucinates for hours each night 🧠🎟️💫

      Robot hallucinates one time… 💦 🤖 ☠️

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      I cautiously review new tech to develop practical uses for it. I constantly live in doubt of a tech being a replacement for all that came before. So far it never has.

      But helping me fix python code, creating a conversation about IT policy and draft policy creation, cleaning up mass emails before I hit send are all fantastic daily uses for AI in my job

    • tiredofsametab
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      In IT for 25ish years, 20+ as a developer. I have used AI a handful of times for generally two things.

      • find/make me an example of something in <poorly-documented-library> when troubleshooting an issue
      • restating a question/search to get better results

      Certainly, I played with it more off and on after it came out, but those are the two real success cases I’ve had with it. I certainly would never let the thing write code for me, particularly where security and optimization are concerned.

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        I’ve used AI to summarize long text, and that is a helpful use. I’m really concerned about the growing dependence on having aAI write code.

  • @[email protected]
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    Well obviously that’s wrong, everyone who took catholic theology studies in college knows it should either be monster or white claw /j

  • barnaclebutt
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    Better move him to a new Parish before they figure what type of AI pornography he’s into.

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      “We did train him on real priests personality, but he’s definitely hallucinating this part!”

  • @[email protected]
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    As an actual, honest-to-God (Episcopal) priest myself, the idea of an “AI priest” is very troubling.

    • @[email protected]
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      115 days ago

      Random request but can I get your opinion on the last thread I commented in since your probably better trained to answer or critique

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      014 days ago

      Why? The high bar is AI doctors and their jobs are already under threat. AI Priests are much simpler and less risky to implement.

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        I’m also troubled by all the others. What gets me in this case, aside from the fact that it’s more “personal,” is that there’s a sacramental nature to the priesthood that feels almost mocked by the notion of a gimmick like this. Also, as others have pointed out, this is a continued slap in the face to women who’ve long struggled for ordination in the Roman Catholic Church only to see that their church would rather call an advanced algorithm a “priest” before it would do so for them.

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          I see. An AI priest is not facing any personal sacrifice for their position.

          I would also worry about either the validity or confidentially of it’s training set. AI confessions sound like a legal minefield.

          If the priest is just trained on the bible then there will be some very strange advice delivered.

          None of this will stop people trying to create them.

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    I mean, water has to be blessed by a priest first before it becomes holy. So, what if the only thing available is a bottle of Gatorade but you have a priest? Couldn’t he bless the Gatorade so that the person could be baptized?

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      This is an interesting question. You can use saliva to baptize in the event of an emergency (lick your thumb and make the sign of the cross on the forehead, in the name of Father, Son, Holy Spirit—but that would likely need a secondary “proper” baptism if the emergency passes, this one counting as “conditional”). Which I guess would supersede ever needing Gatorade since you always have saliva.

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    How many kids did he rape? That seems to be the problem with the priests.

    Who cares about their goofy ass rituals as long as he doesn’t rape kids.

    Priests rape kids at an astonishing rate.

    The Catholic Church is a gigantic pederast ring.

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      Tell an LLM it’s a priest then act shocked when it does priest things. Next level. Truly incredible.

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      It being defrocked implies that it was frocked to begin with, which is a bit surprising.

      You’d have thought that they’d get angry at it for impersonating a priest and giving false advice otherwise, since it’s not trained in the papacy like the others.

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    So they’re saying that God doesn’t have the power to make the thurstquenchanator holy?