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AI and the future of faith

11 min readApr 18, 2025

Some months ago, Meta announced that it intends to fill Instagram with slop. This would include fake AI-generated video content from fake AI-generated creators. Fake AI-generated commenters would then leave fake AI-generated feedback on these posts and quite possibly, even have a back-and-forth with other fake AI-generated bots like them.

This isn’t decorative use of AI for the benefit of people. This isn’t a tool to enrich the lives of real human creators and consumers. This seems to be more a replacement of the human being from every part of the social equation.

If you are not fake or AI-generated, what position do you occupy in this new unreality?

Whether we like it or not, we are all prone to thinking of our social feeds as a representation of the real world. We look at our videos, reels, shorts, Tiktoks and tweets and form our opinions. In time, we form beliefs about the reality we live in. Then we act in accordance with those beliefs and engage with the world.

When literally everything we see on our social feeds is machine-generated bullshit (at great cost to the environment I might add), what kind of opinions will we form on their basis? What will be the worldviews that will be inculcated in our minds? What will be the beliefs that shape our future?

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Vijayendra Mohanty
Vijayendra Mohanty

Written by Vijayendra Mohanty

Storyteller and essayist. I share my opinions on culture and creativity. I wrote the Ravanayan series and Dehek issue 1. I also ran the YouTube channel Epified.

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