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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, I don't know if you've been following AI-generated images and videos,

but they're getting pretty good.

And it's getting harder and harder to distinguish what's an AI-generated image and what's real.

Now, some of it's obvious.

Like, we all know that squirrels make terrible baristas and whales don't

actually have arms and monkeys prefer electric guitars to acoustic.

But that guy in the bottom corner there, that's not a real guy.

That's an AI generated image.

And as you look at things like that, you go, man, okay, there are

some methods available to discern what's real and what's not real. Like as you watch some

AI videos, sometimes a guy will grow a third arm for a second and then it'll go back and you go,

okay, that's not real. People don't actually do that. But as it gets better and better, it gets more and more difficult

to figure out what's real. And as AI gets more sophisticated, we're all asking those questions. By

what mechanism or method can we discern what is real? And just because there's a proliferation of

AI generated images of human beings doesn't mean there aren't real human beings. We just have there's a proliferation of AI-generated images of human beings,

doesn't mean there aren't real human beings. We just have to figure out, how can I be assured

I'm looking at a real one. When I was at a conference this last week, I talked to a friend

who's kind of on the cutting edge of technology and advancement. I asked him, tell me about

AI. And he said, there is going to be a deluge of

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