I agree. I think 99% of AI art is made by a talentless hack of a human art director, and an unfeeling machine printer, neither of which is an artist. I think 1% of AI art is made by a thoughtful and intentional human art director who is skillfully manipulating various unfeeling machine printers, and who is an artist.

And both of them are using models that cost fossil fuels and water resources to train, which is a sin.

If one brush stroke in a painting were made using the blood of a murdered child as paint, would you treat the entire painting and the artist with suspicion? I would. Maybe a masterpiece could be so good that it would overpower that one act in my subjective evaluation, but it would have to be the masterpiece of a true visionary. I would not be easily persuaded.

Oil is the blood of the very earth on which we depend to live, so to spill it in the name of art is perhaps a greater crime than to spill human blood. Again, I could be persuaded by a masterpiece to set aside the flaws in its creation, but it would require a certain bar of quality.

Stephen Spielberg will never be able to coax an actor into giving the exact same performance twice. Do you believe Spielberg is an artist?

Ephesians isn’t a person. That verse was ACTUALLY written by Paul the Heretic, who never even met Jesus Christ. It’s fanfiction. It has no more biblical truth than Dante’s Inferno.

Says who?

First they came for the children and I did nothing, for I was not a child

Commitment is grace.

The commitment to sacrifice your privilege for the good of others is the grace that saves you

If you have truly felt the grace of Jesus Christ then you will be compelled to do works of kindness. But if you have been taken in by the lies of the Antichrist then you will convinced you have felt His grace even as you steal from the poor and step on the downtrodden.

42 For I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’

44 “Then they also will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not serve You?’

45 “He will answer, ‘Truly I say to you, as you did it not for one of the least of these, you did it not for Me.’

This is what original sin means. The sins of our fathers, mothers, and nonbinary parents are passed onto us when we benefit from those sins, from that stolen wealth. It’s not enough to embrace Jesus Christ as your saviour, you must also cleanse yourself of colonisation and racism. That’s why I’m learning the language of the first nations who lived on the land I stand on, and fighting for their rights in the present. This sacrifice of our time, effort, and in some cases identity is required in order to be saved and enter the Lord’s kingdom.