News
“We’re still at the beginning:” For Pagan writers the AI debate is ongoing
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In the third installment on the growing presence of AI in publishing affecting Pagans, concern grows about AI generated text and imagery.
News
AI biases, “hallucinations” and the larger implications
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Correspondent Star Bustamonte continues a series of articles exploring how AI and large language models are impacting Pagan publishing.
Paganism
Column: A Robot and a Replicant Walk into a Bat Mitzvah…
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I recently stumbled upon three unrelated articles examining new ways of combining technology and religion. The first reports on a robot Buddhist monk, the second asks if apps believe in God, and the third promotes the use of computer models to study religion. The articles aren’t actually as unrelated as they first appear. In each case, the use of current technology serves to create an artificial distance between the twenty-first century (schizoid) man and the spiritual, in whatever form it may take. The focus is on reducing the poetic and unquantifiable experience of religion to prosaic and measurable object that can easily be filed away as just one more manufactured moment in our digital lives.