Christian Writers Should Be Especially Cautious With AI

So I stumbled upon this last night, researching dates and timelines in Genesis for a thing on Noah, and I have a few things to vent about AI. Take a real close look at what AI tried to tell me.

“she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.” Genesis 4:1 “Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.” Genesis 4:2

✔️ So that part is correct.

But what wasn’t correct?

“and he was killed by his brother Abel.”

There it is.

“Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.” Genesis 4:8

Cain killed Abel, not the other way around.

My point?

AI answers and written articles need to be tested against the Bible, just like we are supposed to with any teaching.

“Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” 1 John 4:1

While you may think this is “insignificant,” it’s actually not, because if logically followed through, it completely changes a whole crap ton of other stuff in the Bible.

How many people do you think would actually cross-check that AI answer?

Worse, how many Christians do you think read that and failed to catch it because:

1. They haven’t read even the basics of the Bible, or

2. They lack discernment, even to pick up that something's fishy?

   
   

AI is fallible, I see it all the time.

I’m even catching things being slightly off here in Medium articles, which are supposedly human-written articles by Christians.

The ones that do manage to pass Biblical standards are boring and uninspiring, even if AI does string together enough sentences that actually do make sense or make a good point. They lack any presence of the Holy Spirit, and I’m feeling it and feeling it pretty hard these last couple of weeks.

I’m not bothering to check out anything that I suspect was AI-created anymore, if I ain’t feeling the pull from God to read it, it’s not gonna happen.

They read as if they can come out of a tin can somewhere, so annoying to read bot words and not feel the writer in the work. I miss that.

Yes, AI can have great benefits. I use it myself sometimes for spell checks, figuring out my annoying SEO tags, images I can’t get somewhere else or make myself, and help with title ideas, because I can’t title anything to save my life over here, ask my family how long it takes me to title anything, but…..

If you're going to “write” something on religion, at least have the honor and dignity to actually write it yourself first, don’t just throw in a prompt and pray for the best; the Holy Spirit isn’t going to have a conversation with a bot’s heart.

Just as God can use anything for His glory, satan can also use anything for his deception.

© Jane Isley.