AI-generated Pope Sermons Flood YouTube, TikTok
AFP reports that AI-generated videos and audios of Pope Leo XIV are being created at rates and popularity that exceed the ability for social platforms to police and remove them.
Brian Patrick Green, director of technology ethics, said the moderation difficulties are the result of rapid AI developments inspiring “chaotic uses of the technology.”
The AI-generated sermons not only “corrode the pope’s moral authority” and “make whatever he actually says less believable,” Green said, but could be harnessed “to build up trust around your channel before having the pope say something outrageous or politically expedient.”
“There’s a real crisis here,” Green said. “We’re going to have to figure out some way to know whether things are real or fake.”
Brian Green, director, technology ethics, quoted by AFP News Agency, and republished on Digital Journal, Barron's, Yahoo! News, and more.