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Fantasy or faith? One company's AI-generated Bible content stirs controversy


"The AI Bible is a way to really bring these stories to life in a way that people have never seen before. Think of if we were like, the Marvel Universe of faith," said one of the site's creators.

toggle caption Courtesy Pray.com In a recent video posted to the AI Bible's Youtube channel, buildings crumble and terrified-looking people claw their way through the rubble. Today, evangelicals in particular are at the forefront of experimenting with technology, said John Dyer, a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary and author of People of the Screen, which traces the history of Biblical software. "I think that the package, the form, situates the Bible as entertainment, as content to be titillated or amused by… Rather than a word that is a divine revelation intended to transform our lives and bring them into accordance with truth, with God and with one another," said Jeffrey Bilbro, a professor of English and Grove City College in Pennsylvania who has written on Christians' relationship to AI.

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