"Then come monsters, including a seven-headed dragon that looks like something out of a Dungeons and Dragons rulebook. The eight-minute video, which depicts a section of the Book of Revelation, is entirely generated by artificial intelligence tools. At times it feels like a high-budget Hollywood movie, at times more like a scene from a video game, and at times like fantasy art."
"The AI Bible is run by Pray.com, a for-profit company that claims to have "the world's #1 app for faith and prayer." The new AI videos are being warmly received online, according to Ryan Beck, Pray's Chief Technology Officer. The viewers are mostly under 30 and skew male, though not too heavily. "People are starting to write in on our YouTube, telling us how these stories are really transforming their life, how they're really impacting them spiritually and mentally," he said."
AI-generated eight-minute dramatizations of the Book of Revelation portray apocalyptic scenes with angels, monsters and a seven-headed dragon using cinematic, video-game and fantasy-art aesthetics. A for-profit faith app company produced and posted the videos to YouTube, where one example earned over 750,000 views in two months. Viewer demographics skew younger and somewhat male, with many reporting spiritual and mental impact and enthusiastic online responses from the platform. Some theologians contend that action-movie-style visualizations diminish the Bible's spiritual power and are not spiritually edifying. Christianity has a long history of adopting new media to spread its message.
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