Though the cynic in me believes (at this moment) the church might actually think “AI” is some omnipotent all powerful artificial intelligence, and not just some LLM “word spaghetti generator”.
Probably afraid that people might start treating it as some kind of all knowing “higher power”. (Who needs God if you have AI kind of mentally?).
People are sadly already treating it as such. “But ChatGPT said” “but Claude did this instead” is what I hear from 1/3 of people at the very least…
Don’t get me wrong, LLMs can be a great tool - if you know how to use them. They’re great for research, because they can formalise a half-assed question into a proper query, provide extra terminology you can include in your search terms and so on. But you have to keep in mind that it’s not a super-intelligent all-knowing thing. It is at best a thesaurus. And you have to use it accordingly.
Sadly most people think of it as a direct search engine.
Sideing with the church on this one
Though the cynic in me believes (at this moment) the church might actually think “AI” is some omnipotent all powerful artificial intelligence, and not just some LLM “word spaghetti generator”.
Probably afraid that people might start treating it as some kind of all knowing “higher power”. (Who needs God if you have AI kind of mentally?).
People are sadly already treating it as such. “But ChatGPT said” “but Claude did this instead” is what I hear from 1/3 of people at the very least…
Don’t get me wrong, LLMs can be a great tool - if you know how to use them. They’re great for research, because they can formalise a half-assed question into a proper query, provide extra terminology you can include in your search terms and so on. But you have to keep in mind that it’s not a super-intelligent all-knowing thing. It is at best a thesaurus. And you have to use it accordingly.
Sadly most people think of it as a direct search engine.