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highplainsdem

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14. Oh, I don't think it's only about religion. There are countless AI-generated fake obits about living celebrities on

Reply to Renew Deal (Reply #12)

Wed Jun 4, 2025, 01:02 PM

Jun 2025

YouTube. Fake news stories about scandals they're supposedly involved in. And yes, this fits generally into the news category, but these are designed to pop up when you search for music by an artist, and so on.

I'd love to know how many more videos are on YouTube, period, due to AI.

This 404 Media story on Christian AI slop struck me as interesting, anyway, for the "God gave us this tech" angle.

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Why Do Christians Love AI Slop? (404 Media on AI-slop videos about the Bible flooding online platforms) [View all] highplainsdem Jun 2025 OP

Because Thomas Kinkade is no longer available. tanyev Jun 2025 #1

I guess AI is the modern version of the Jesus Saves cards left on public toilets by religious zealots. Silent Type Jun 2025 #2

I stopped at a truck stop in the Bible Belt years ago and saw a stack of "How to use your mud flaps for Jesus" flyers highplainsdem Jun 2025 #6

I'm still laughing as I type. I live in that Bible Belt and don't doubt it. Silent Type Jun 2025 #10

AI's capacity for illustrating human fantasy brings religious delusion to life. TheProle Jun 2025 #3

Google scarlett johansson beautiful cabin crew Gore1FL Jun 2025 #4

Lots of images in the Reddit thread I'm linking to below. Pure garbage. Complete waste of highplainsdem Jun 2025 #11

AI lets them all be as maunderingly awful as Jon McNaughton JHB Jun 2025 #5

There's been so much AI slop circulating that I almost forgot about McNaughton's dreadful paintings. highplainsdem Jun 2025 #9

Yes, they've always had that "slop" sensibility even when painted by a human JHB Jun 2025 #20

Because evangelical christians want to see the wrath of God SARose Jun 2025 #7

Because they've always had a penchant for hokey garbage. Basso8vb Jun 2025 #8

I don't think its limited to religion Renew Deal Jun 2025 #12

Oh, I don't think it's only about religion. There are countless AI-generated fake obits about living celebrities on highplainsdem Jun 2025 #14

It is interesting Renew Deal Jun 2025 #16

Gullible Moran's...I had a friend back in college days (I'm late 60s now) who lived in a small mobile home... wcmagumba Jun 2025 #13

My guess would be that they have really, really shitty taste in art . . . hatrack Jun 2025 #15

Also music, movies, food, politics, news networks... Initech Jun 2025 #18

Like Big Boy, Socialist Realism never really went away . . . hatrack Jun 2025 #19

Because they love anything that speaks their language. Initech Jun 2025 #17

Because religion is their hobby and drug ibegurpard Jun 2025 #21