There's a reason people call it "Christianity Ashtray."
Here's what the two head honchos at the magazine, Russell Moore and Mike Cosper, have been working on lately:
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A discussion on how ChatGPT erotica can offer opportunities for the Gospel!
Talk about the worst tweet of all time!
The article is a written excerpt of an interview where the men discuss the dangers of A.I., specifically how A.I. lures people into more intense fantasies where they form emotional connections with machines.
Moore specifically tells churches that they need to deal with it in blunt, serious, and straightforward way.
The church needs to recognize this in a way that doesn't treat it as freakish, science-fiction-y, and weird. Otherwise, people don't want to talk about it. Also, it's awkward to talk about sexual and relational temptation in anything but abstract terms. A pastor who stands up and talks about erotic chatbots will have people coming up after and saying, 'Why did you bring that up? That's risque.'
The New Testament does not have that kind of reticence about dealing with temple prostitution and other issues in the first-century world. We need to acknowledge how vulnerable we all are.
Moore also talked about the inevitable disillusionment that people will get after they realize A.I. is fake, comparing it to the thrill and letdown of a man who makes an idol.
He experiences disillusionment and disappointment because it's not there to respond to him when he cries to it. That's exactly what I'm seeing right now, even apart from the sexual content. People say, 'I've really been trusting my chatbot to tell me what to do. Now I'm starting to feel like it's just giving back to me what I'm expecting.' That prompts some people to ask, 'What am I doing? What's happening? What's actually real?'
There's no tangible action points given to show Christians how to smash the idols of our technological Baals and preach the Gospel with zeal and conviction, just a vague sort of hope that people will get tired of A.I. and start seeking real human connection again.
This makes the tweet seem like clickbait for what is rather a generic discussion about technology, sin, and ... winsomeness.
The comment section had thoughts:
It may be the worst tweet for a story I've ever seen.
Why is it framed this way?
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