Pope Leo Denounces AI Art: 'Algorithms Lack the Spark of Humanity'

Pope Leo told artists at the Vatican that the Catholic Church "needs" human creators and urged distinguishing human art from machine output. He said there is an ontological difference, since algorithms only perform statistical calculation over millions of others' images.

• Pope Leo spoke at the Vatican event "The Art of Possibility"
• He cited an ontological gap between art and machine generation
• The Church seeks a renewed alliance with artists to safeguard humanity
• He earlier issued the 43,000-word encyclical Magnifica Humanitas