Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art

教皇利奥十四世并不看好人工智能生成的艺术

Critics of AI-generated art have a powerful new ally: His Holiness the Bishop of Rome (Episcopus Romanus), Primate of Italy (Primatus Italiae), and Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church (Summus Pontifex Ecclesiae Universalis). 人工智能生成艺术的批评者们迎来了一位强有力的新盟友：罗马主教（罗马教区主教）、意大利首席主教以及普世教会最高教宗（教皇利奥十四世）。

In a post on X Friday morning, Pope Leo XIV detailed the spiritual difference between human-generated art and art that is generated by machines, as part of a call to preserve human art from the encroachment of AI. 在周五上午发布于 X（原推特）的一篇帖子中，教皇利奥十四世详细阐述了人类创作的艺术与机器生成艺术之间的精神差异，并呼吁保护人类艺术免受人工智能的侵蚀。

“In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce,” the Servus Servorum Dei wrote. “There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity.” “在这个人工智能时代，区分人类艺术与机器产物已变得刻不容缓，”这位“天主众仆之仆”写道。“艺术与机器通过基于他人创作的数百万张图像进行统计计算所生成的内容之间，存在着本体论上的差异，这种差异甚至先于审美差异。算法缺乏人性的火花。”

Pope Leo XIV gave a more detailed statement on AI in an encyclical letter in May, which emphasized the importance of human dignity in a world of increasing automation. 教皇利奥十四世在五月份的一封通谕中对人工智能发表了更详细的声明，强调了在自动化程度日益提高的世界中，人类尊严的重要性。

But that hasn’t stopped AI companies from lobbying the supreme pontiff. According to a recent New York Times report, Anthropic has actively lobbied the Vatican to reconsider its position on non-human consciousness — apparently finding little success. 但这并没有阻止人工智能公司游说教皇。据《纽约时报》最近的一篇报道，Anthropic 公司一直在积极游说梵蒂冈重新考虑其对“非人类意识”的立场——但显然收效甚微。