From CT deputy editor @Bonnie Kristian: Perhaps you saw the recent report about a New York Times article that was found to have been produced substantially with generative artificial intelligence. The author of the column told The Atlantic that she "hadn’t copied and pasted language from an AI model into her work" but had used at least five different AI programs for things like "help[ing] her stay on topic in a paragraph." This kind of AI use is increasingly accepted. At CT, we disagree. Our house style guide, which contains policies shaping all our journalism, has long been clear on this point: We do not write with AI. What does that mean, concretely? I’m emailing more detailed guidance to our writers, but here are some highlights: CT writers may use AI as a souped-up search engine, provided they are extremely careful about checking its…
New from me at @Christianity Today (unlocked link): Plenty could be said of the details of Trump’s comments about the pope. But more important, I think, is the posture this pair of posts evinces toward the things of God. Even if Trump is right on every issue he invokes—crime, COVID-19 closures, Iran, Venezuela, and the stock market—he’s still grotesquely wrong to elevate himself to the level of Christ and claim for himself authority over Christ’s church. The…
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