Pope Leo XIV wrote 42.3K words on human dignity in the age of AI. (But Ellipsus has written over 65K words on the topic since 2023. 💪)
Solidarity is a weird thing… all of a sudden you’re seeing the Pope on your dash and the tea is… piping hot? (To offset the Vatican.va link, here's a tl;dr from The Onion.) ... Look at him go!
(Disagreements with his Holiness aside, it’s great to see a powerful figure power taking the side of the people.) ... EDIT: Wake up babe, a new Inquisition just dropped - apparently, not even the Pope can escape being wrongly accused by AI "verifiers."
Yall know those AI detectors are, in and of themselves, AIs too, right? You’re putting peoples work into an AI to ask if it’s AI, and now that person’s work is likely going to be used to train more AI.
If someone’s work has EVER been put through a detector (I know mine has for a fact, they even had the gall to show me the 13 detectors they’d run my work against), you have a much higher chance of setting them off in the future because now it has your writing style in its database.
It’s not worth it. Don’t like it? Move on. Feels like AI? Stop reading it and Move. On. It’s very simple. Some of us out here are busting our asses to write stories and having them disparaged like that is so damaging. It makes new authors not want to put their work out there.
Just give it time. The authors using AI as a crutch will eventually fizzle out. Why? Not because their work is somehow instantly detectable as AI. But because their work lacks soul. It lacks spirit. It lacks humanity, and while it can sometimes be subtle, it compounds over time. You read one story and then another and another and while the words are coherent and the story follows a pattern, you’re left feeling nothing in the end. You can’t recall what you read. You can’t tell someone else what you found compelling about the story because there was nothing.
So stop the witch hunt and let those cheating their way into the creative spaces work themselves back out. I’ll still be here when they do.
