Analysis suggests parts of Pope's AI encyclical may have been AI-generated
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Summary
An analysis posted on LessWrong claims that parts of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" about AI's impact on humanity may have been written by AI. The analysis by Linch Zhang found certain paragraphs scored between 40% and 100% AI-written according to the Pangram AI detector. The document reportedly contains traits common in AI-generated writing, such as frequent use of the word "genuinely" — a pattern associated with Anthropic's Claude — which appeared more often than in previous encyclicals.
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The document includes known traits that appear in AI-generated writing, such as a higher use of the word 'genuinely' — which crops up in writing by Anthropic's Claude — than previous encyclicals, Zhang says.
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