Prof. Dr Beth Singler reposted
Well no, it doesn't diminish those questions, but it sure makes you look like the wrong person to answer them www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
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Prof. Dr Beth Singler
Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. nytimes.com
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[2605.07723] LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations arxiv.org
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Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com
Existential Conversations with Large Language Models: Content, Community, and Culture arxiv.org
Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions arstechnica.com
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AI Article Generation Surpasses Humans: What's Left in Your Brain? eu.36kr.com
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“More People Are Turning To AI To Connect With God — And Religious Leaders Are Having A Surprising Reaction”, Huffington Post, June 2026 bvlsingler.com
AI Gospel Is Growing — Spiritual Experts Share What Worries Them Most About It huffpost.com
“Will Pope Leo’s critique of AI cut through to Silicon Valley?”, ABC, May 2026 bvlsingler.com
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Prof. Dr Beth Singler reposted
"hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition" arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
Prof. Dr Beth Singler reposted
Is AI profitable yet? Find out with this handy website isaiprofitable.com
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- The AI industry has spent roughly $1.4 trillion against $613 billion in revenue, leaving almost every major player still in the red.
- Amazon leads all spenders at $313 billion invested; NVIDIA is the sole major AI player currently in the black, profiting from hardware.
- The site's anonymous creator predicts clarity on AI viability by 2030 and notes Anthropic recently approached its first profitable quarter.
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Oh, what's that... some recent articles on machines praying, you say?! 1. "Will AI Create a Religion?" 2023 muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... 2. Existential Conversations with LLMs (with M. Shanahan) 2024: arxiv.org/abs/2411.13223 3. LLM theisms (book chapter, behind paywall) 2026,…
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Preprint server arXiv will ban submitters of AI-generated hallucinations arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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I have achieved peak Textpocalypse, having now been quoted in an article about AI slop that is itself AI slop (and clearly ripped off from Jill LaPore’s recent NYer piece). eu.36kr.com/en/p/3823865...
New interview, on AI gods and new religions www.france24.com/fr/%C3%A9co-...
Prof. Dr Beth Singler reposted
The AI bots are coming and the young are booing, not applauding reut.rs/4upSIYq
New interview: bvlsingler.com/2026/06/12/m...
New interview on AI and religion :) www.huffpost.com/entry/using-...
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A new classic of AI slop from FB. The dearly missed Anthony Head at his own funeral...
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