The AI Bible
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I guess not surprising this is out there.
In a recent video posted to the AI Bible's Youtube channel, buildings crumble and terrified-looking people claw their way through the rubble. Horns blare, and an angel appears floating above the chaos. Then come monsters, including a seven-headed dragon that looks like something out of a Dungeons and Dragons rulebook.
The AI Bible is run by Pray.com, a for-profit company that claims to have "the world's #1 app for faith and prayer." The new AI videos are being warmly received online, according to Ryan Beck, Pray's Chief Technology Officer. The viewers are mostly under 30 and skew male, though not too heavily.
"People are starting to write in on our YouTube, telling us how these stories are really transforming their life, how they're really impacting them spiritually and mentally," he said.
But theologians are more skeptical. The videos rob the Bible of its power by reducing it to an action movie, said Brad East, a professor of theology at Abilene Christian University in Texas.
Link to video"It's depressing that anyone would think that approach to biblical material was in any way spiritually edifying," he said.
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@jodi 555. I hadn't noticed that.
