Pope Leo Challenges Trump, AI and the Rich: Howard Chua-Eoan

In early January, as I was pulling together a column on Pope Leo XIV, I asked a couple of AI chatbots to find the text of his first Christmas message. Gemini — the Google interlocutor — responded by telling me that any news or social media reference to “a Pope Leo XIV… appears to be a digital hallucination or fictional placeholder” because the current pope was Francis. Even though we were eight months into the new pontificate, it insisted: “There is no Pope Leo XIV.” OpenAI’s ChatGPT wasn’t any more cognizant. “As of now, there is no reigning Pope Leo XIV,” it ...