Pope Leo comes out against AI-generated art and calls for an alliance with artists
Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican on Friday that there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine generates from millions of images made by others. European law has required synthetic content to carry machine-readable marks since 2 August, but artistic and satirical work gets the lightest disclosure obligations of all.
Pope Leo XIV has told artists there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine produces. European law already requires that difference to be marked. It asks least of exactly the work he was describing.
He spoke on Friday in the Consistory Hall, to artists and curators at a meeting run by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education, which published the address. A condensed version went out on the papal account. Algorithms, he said, lack the spark of the human.
The difference comes before aesthetics, he argued, between art and...
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