Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

A recent story at Fox News described a new app that allows people to cut out the middleman, so to speak, when talking to God.

The Text with Jesus app allows users to message AI-generated biblical figures like Mary, Joseph, and Moses.

And despite being fully lambasted for this app, its creator reports that many users are

embracing this new way of worship. Well, aside from being eerily reminiscent of the Israelites and

the golden calf, this is yet another example of confusing what it means to be human with AI.

And a recent interview with MSNBC, actress and director Justine Bateman slammed TV and movie producers for choosing cyber shortcuts to genuine human creativity.

Quote, I think they sort of like to think of themselves as being tech barons

themselves or something, but this doing projects that don't involve humans is not the film

business. They don't know what it's like to make a film, end quote. A few weeks before that,

Zelda Williams, the daughter of the great Robin Williams, issued this plea to her late father's fans,

quote, please just stop sending me AI videos of dad.

Stop believing I want to see it or that I'll understand.

I don't and I won't.

To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to this vaguely loose and sounds like them,

just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop, puppeteering them, is maddening.

You're not making art.

You're making disgusting, over-processed hot dogs out of the lives of human beings, end quote.

And you might remember that a few months ago, former CNN reporter Jim Acosta, interviewed an AI

Avatar that claimed to be Joaquin Oliver, one of the students killed in the horrific 2018 Parkland school shooting.

Not to be outdone by that, at least three megachurches played an AI version of Charlie Kirk on the Sunday after he was assassinated.

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