I feel weird the pope is saying something that resonates with me... Stop

This is a spiritual take that has its roots in ancient Greek philosophy. Some centuries before Christ the Stoics had planted a seed for equality: they proposed that all humans possessed a divine spark which linked us together to a greater universal whole. This commends respect and dignity for all without exception, individually and collectively.

The Christians adopted this as one of their founding principles as well. A couple of millennium later we can all see how this piece of wisdom still needs tending. Leo's really going for the basics of his doctrine here to question generative AI.

I'd go as far as saying that his argument is rooted in an idea that transcends religions and is a critical lesson for our species as a whole, one we have yet to truly fulfill.

CEOs are not going to approve of this message.

'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts'

That's brilliant! I'm not Catholic, I'm not even religious at all, and I've NEVER paid attention to any Pope, but this guy is different.

Ok he was cooking with that line.

Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts

Interesting contrast to the church itself, which has the capacity of turning people into passive consumers of thoughts that have been painstakingly processed for centuries.

3, 2, 1... Peter Thiel is giving some spiel in Europe about the Pope being the Antichrist

I'm... What? WTF, is that headline trying to tell me that I'm experiencing an aneurysm?

Pope message https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/messages/communications/documents/20260124-messaggio-comunicazioni-sociali.html

Orange Catholic bible when?

"passive consumers of unthought thoughts" is an apt way of putting it. With AI, it's so easy not to think and have it think for you, even in things that you should really want to think about because it's entertaining.

For example, I've been re-watching Game of Thrones, and I wondered how things would have changed if Joffrey had a father figure in his life that wasn't Robert, say a teacher in swordsmanship. I could spend a lot of time thinking about how Cersei would see this teacher as a rival and want him dead, whether Robert would protect that teacher because he's making Joffrey into more of a 'man', whether Joffrey being trained as a swordsman would make him braver, and even if everything happened as written up to the Blackwater, would Joffrey find his courage and go out into battle, and ultimately get killed by one of Stannis' soldiers? What would happen to Sansa?

Or... I could just ask ChatGPT, get a quick answer, and forget all about it.

a broken clock

The enemy of my enemy and all that. If dude can convince any of his followers to wake the fuck up then let the man speak; we could use the numbers.

Yo, where can I get me a pope sword?

Amen

AI is just the next form of control after businesses have already infiltrated online forums.

Still that's kinda rich coming from one of the world's biggest leaders of religion, which literally encourages people to believe things without evidence and simply based on who tells them, based on unseen guidance.

"Passive consumers of unthought thoughts"?

You mean... like a religion brainwashes you into becoming as you're indoctrinated?

Maybe this guy is being decent, or maybe he just sees a threat to his monopoly?

Pope can't handle the competition.

I honestly though Pope Bob would be a bit sterner on Trump, but it's Pius XII over again.

What a weird world we live in.

I am an atheist (albeit I support our national churches/religious entities and believe they should be state financed) and it is fascinating that I agree with Leo XIV on an ethical, moral and even theological/spiritual level.

P.S. While I don't believe in a meta-physical, abrahamic tradition-style god, I do think there is a lot of wonder, beauty and even sacredness (divinity) to the cosmos. Something along the lines of this quote from a book by Alan Watts:

The universe is the Big Bang, the beginning of the universe. And you’re not something that is a result of it. You’re not something that is a sort of byproduct of it. You are it. It’s like when you take a bottle of ink and you throw it at a white wall. Smash! And all the ink spreads out. In the middle, it’s dense, isn’t it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns.

So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are the little fringes on the edge of that bang. We are the way it’s going now.

Being the head of the longest-running pedophile ring in history doesn't give one much high ground to chastise from.

I mean... a religious leader accusing people of being "passive consumers of unthought thoughts"... am I the only one seeing some irony here?

Not that I particularly disagree, but an ironic messenger.

Interesting, I thought an AI Jesus/Pope would be a benefit for the Catholic Church. I mean look at what they used the last centuries to bring people into believers.

Who cares what the head of a child molesting cult thinks or said.

He's just mad the church of shrimp Jesus is leaving him in the dust.