Be aware...Perfect posts by some are likely A.I.

I think it's a good idea to deliberately put in typos in posts. It knock AI on the head, and desensitises one against being perfect.

 

Stating the obvious
The daily posts since 10 days regarding confirmed miracle healings through a Blessed or Saint could not have been created without the useful help of AI: finding a Blessed or Saint +specific date +miracle confirmed by consulta medica needed sometimes more than one LLM. Then editing. Keeping the basic post structure daily enhanced the changing message.
Since the presented content is factual xx I think the benefits of spreading this message outweighs the concerns re AI.
Should you feel or judge differently:
Please comment and the posts will be stopped.

XX added
and since the content can be independently verified, the diagnosis is often taken from old, real books

 

I hope young people these days can still read and write well. When I was young I read several books a week. I doubt if many people do this with the Internet now. AI will make it ten times worse.

 

I agree, I think AI will be a detriment to the writing skills of young people. Creativity, grammar, and punctuation will all be affected.

 

The attention span is much shorter than in our generation. The younger generation is aware of this as well. It's so bad that schools in Europe are shortening classic literature to make it understandable!

 

I feel sorry for teachers who grade papers. But then, my daughter, Rachel, is an on-line homeschool instructor who excels in correcting essays. She can smell AI a mile away, though it is probably more difficult than a couple years ago.

 

I notice this on the Mass Media, they are dumbing down like crazy.

It is so sad .

 

This isn't directed to anyone here, but to me, admiring and marveling over the "intelligence" of something we've created, and then using it to guide our thoughts and words and make us somehow better, is a bit like fashioning a golden calf and worshipping it.

I know we've had things like calculators and spell check and countless other things that make our lives easier and correct our mistakes, but AI is a whole different ballgame....because it is set up to resemble a thinking entity, to engage our human intellect and emotions in such a way that we are manipulated into relating with it as we do with another soul.

It sits VERY uncomfortably in my spirit.

 

So much for calling students on to the next level. An environment has been created that entices both parents to work in order to "provide the best" for their children.

Thank goodness my grandkids are being home-schooled by their parents! It's the best way of protecting one's children from dummy-downed curriculums and the anti-Christian, secular environment! I know young families who are resisting to cave but it requires so much sacrifice, especially if you aren't supported by like-minded families!


Lord have Mercy!

 

A fact and even a confirmed one:
Interacting via written exchange only probands (unaware if the answers were written by fellow humans or by LLMs) rated the AI answers as more human than the real ones.
LLMs use of terms like conversation thinking replying are seductive enough.
My own use of GROK Claude less so with Gemini showed this danger as well, one can imagine that lonely people can get quite dependent, so sad.

 

Yes. Precisely. I won't use it. Although I have friends who find it helpful and convenient. But like you I am also uncomfortable in my spirit.

 

I understand the apprehension behind these tools, but when used the right way I've found them immensely helpful. The key is effective prompting to set the context of what you're trying to accomplish before you ask the question. When used the right way, you can interact with all of the Church Fathers and other things that would take a lifetime to read. I'm including a few sample starting type of prompts that I have used in various research.

"Act as a Catholic theologian. For this request only use scripture, the Cathechism, and official documents approved by the Catholic Church."

"Please help explain transubstantiation in a way that a 4th grader would understand."

"You are a Muslim scholar. Please explain your understanding of Jesus and the Virgin Mary"

"As a Jewish rabbi, why do you not believe that Jesus Christ fulfilled the Old testament prophecies?"

"Please provide the top 20 takeaways for Christians from the messages of Medjugorje."

"Summarize the history of indulgences in the church. Please provide the output with key dates and and a 3 sentence summary."

"Provide a comprehensive history of how the canon of scripture was formed and why different groups of Christians have different numbers of books in the Bible."

"What did Thomas Aquinas have to say about the hierarchy of Angels?"

 

But AI is pulling from what's available on the internet, which can easily be altered, or miss certain contexts, or contain wrong information. Best to look at books and trusted sources firsthand to study these questions.

As an example, I recently was trying to find proof that Archbishop Fulton Sheen did not say some quotes that are found extensively throughout the internet and attributed to him. One in particular is that supposedly Sheen said the false prophet would be recruited from our bishops. If you type the question into Google "Did Fulton Sheen say the false prophet would be recruited from our bishops?" Google's AI will tell you yes, he did say that, and it provides the supposed source: Sheen's book Communism and the Conscience of the West. Well when I did a lot of digging, I discovered that every website that quotes him saying that and gives that book as the source has copy-pasted or borrowed it from another site, round and round, everyone taking each other's word for it. And so of course AI is going to gather that info and say it's true. But AI can't order an original copy of Communism and the Conscience of the West off Ebay and read it like I did...in which case I found that Sheen says no such thing. And a few intelligent-sounding summary sentences or paragraphs from AI will never provide me with the wealth of knowledge and understanding I have been gleaning from reading the whole rest of that book---not to mention the closeness between myself and Sheen that develops as I read his words, pore over his thoughts, and pray to him as I go.

 

AI really cannot be trusted for much. Even on less substantial subjects, it is remarkably futile to place trust in it. It even lies when it comes to the cost of things. Once I fell for a lie by an AI search engine that claimed that the average cost of something was $16when it was really closer to $12. If it lies on something simple like that, why trust it at all?

 

I wonder if any exorcists have talked about AI? I don't remember.

 

Lie is a human trait; AI is just a bunch of algorithms. When it gives you incorrect data, it’s like when your phone screen freezes or a door gets stuck—it’s a malfunction in the object you’re using.

When it says, for example, that it’s okay to insult Christians but offensive to insult others, that’s because someone programmed it and gave it instructions to produce answers based on such texts.

AI is a tool, nothing more. The dangerous ones are those behind it who use it for dishonest actions

 

This is where you can specify in the prompt. I just asked the same question in Gemini using the "thinking mode"

Did Fulton Sheen say the false prophet would be recruited from our bishops? Please validate only from primary sources like books he wrote and speeches he gave. Be skeptical of internet forums and social media. Cite your references.

AI RESPONSE

You are right to be skeptical of internet forums and social media. While Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen spoke extensively and prophetically about a counterfeit church and the Antichrist, there is no primary source evidence that he ever said the false prophet would be "recruited from our bishops." That specific sentence is an internet-era interpolation that has been spliced into his actual, authentic writings.
Here is a breakdown of what he actually wrote versus what is circulated online.
The Authentic Primary Source
The core of the viral quote originates from Sheen’s 1948 book, Communism and the Conscience of the West (Bobbs-Merrill Company, pp. 24-25), which was based on a famous radio address he gave in January 1947 titled "Signs of Our Times."
In this text, Sheen warns of a coming "counter-church" stripped of its divine nature. The authentic text reads:
> "He [the Antichrist] will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ.... Because his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive even the elect."
>
Earlier in that same text, Sheen famously describes this deception as a "new religion without a Cross, a liturgy without a world to come, a religion to destroy a religion, or a politics which is a religion."
The Internet Embellishment
If you look at the quote as it frequently appears on social media, blogs, and even in some modern traditionalist books, it usually looks like this:
> "...it will be the mystical body of the anti-christ. The Mystical Body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot, and he will be the false prophet. Satan will recruit him from our Bishops. The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers..."
>
The bolded sentences above do not appear in Communism and the Conscience of the West, nor do they appear in the transcripts of his radio addresses.
Why the Confusion?
This is a classic case of conflation. Over the years, bloggers and commentators have copy-pasted Sheen's authentic warnings about the "Ape of the Church" and silently merged them with language from other sources. The idea of bishops turning against the Church or "cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops" is famously associated with the alleged Marian apparitions at Akita (1973) and La Salette (1846). As these texts circulate around the internet, the boundaries between Sheen's actual words and other apocalyptic commentaries blur together into a single, fabricated mega-quote.

 

And yet still, it is not made clear here that Sheen was talking about communism. Communism is the Ape of the Church. It is politics that mimics a religion, with its head (at the time of Sheen's writing) being the Kremlin. Sheen stresses that the Church will endure, and that it is the world (and Communism) which is to be feared.

AI will never know how to truly explain things to you because it has no soul, it has no real intelligence, it has not truly read anything and processed it with an intellect and human heart and soul.

 

Padraig, I often wondered if the forum Web address was purposely misspelled (without the 'r' in mother) or was it a typo?

 

No it was deliberate , the Mother of God web site address would have cost two fortunes, even back then.