{"id":29378,"date":"2023-09-13T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/?p=29378"},"modified":"2023-09-12T19:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T01:24:32","slug":"ai-in-spiritual-education-caveat-emptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2023\/09\/ai-in-spiritual-education-caveat-emptor.html","title":{"rendered":"AI in Spiritual Education: Caveat Emptor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So apparently the hot new trend is people using artificial intelligence to create courses and then selling them. And other people offering to show you how to make tons of money doing that\u2026 for a fee, of course. We\u2019ve known for some time that there are many books on magic, witchcraft, and Paganism that are either written by AI, or are directly plagiarized from flesh-and-blood authors.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t written much about AI, because I haven\u2019t seen the need. At this point it\u2019s more of a search engine on steroids than anything we can properly call intelligence. It regurgitates what it thinks you want to hear (or see, in the case of images) with no new insights. I wrote better papers in high school. It\u2019s still very new and the technology will likely get better \u2013 at some point we may have to have a serious debate about the place of artificial intelligence in our metaphysics. But that day is not today.<\/p>\n

My concern today is with the people who think this trend is inevitable so we might as well get on the bandwagon. I think they\u2019re wrong. Whether you\u2019re a reader \/ student or an author \/ teacher \u2013 or both \u2013 I want you to know that these books and courses exist, that they\u2019re not helpful, and that there\u2019s a better way.<\/p>\n

Caveat Emptor \u2013 let the buyer beware.<\/p>\n

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What, you expected AI illustrations in an essay about the shortcomings of AI? All these are my own photographs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

AI can\u2019t vet its sources<\/h2>\n Last week I put a post on Instagram asking for recommendations for magical people to follow. I was trying to find people who are informing and inspiring, but who I\u2019m overlooking because they aren\u2019t in my usual circles. Yvonne Aburrow<\/a> responded with 15 names \u2013 I immediately followed them all. I\u2019ve known Yvonne for a long time \u2013 they were an alpha reader for The Path of Paganism<\/em> \u2013 and I trust them. So I didn\u2019t have to vet their suggestions. I couldn\u2019t be sure I\u2019d enjoy following all of their suggestions, but I was confident none of them are folkish or TERFish or someone who teaches concepts I\u2019d find ridiculous or harmful.<\/p>\n That\u2019s what you get when you read a book or take a course from a flesh-and-blood author: ideas, practices, and suggestions the author has enough experience with to recommend to others. Anything I put out is something that\u2019s important enough to me that I\u2019ve given it some serious thought, tried it out for myself, and found it inspiring enough to write about. I can\u2019t promise you I\u2019m always right \u2013 I\u2019m not \u2013 but I can tell you I\u2019ve thought seriously about everything I create. I\u2019ve vetted the material for you.<\/p>\n You don\u2019t get that with AI. You get what the algorithm thinks you want to hear. It draws on the resources of the internet, which as anyone who\u2019s been online for more than 15 minutes knows is filled with misinformation, half truths, and outright lies. Yes, the better algorithms (including ordinary search engines like Google) try to assess the reliability of various sources, but mainly it weeds out things that are so bad they\u2019re not popular.<\/p>\n Always check your sources. You can\u2019t do that with AI in spiritual education.<\/p>\n

AI can\u2019t give you a connection to an author<\/h2>\n \ I\u2019ve seen a couple people who say that AI-created spiritual education is just the next point on the slippery slope that started with book-taught solitary practitioners. They say these things were intended to be taught person-to-person, face-to-face, and once we got away from that, this was inevitable. I don\u2019t agree.<\/p>\n When you learn from a book or a course, you learn from the author. When I reviewed Deborah Castellano\u2019s Magic For Troubled Times<\/em><\/a>, I said it was the closest thing you can get to apprenticing under an experienced witch without actually going to the witch\u2019s cottage and stirring her cauldron while she explains the spells you\u2019re helping her cast.<\/p>\n The Path of Paganism<\/em> and Paganism in Depth<\/em> are my words, written by me. They\u2019re what I would teach you if you were sitting in my living room sharing a pot of tea with me. My courses<\/a> are even closer to that experience \u2013 you\u2019re hearing my voice, speaking unscripted (I use PowerPoint slides the same way I use outlines with in-person presentations \u2013 they\u2019re prompts, not a script).<\/p>\n It\u2019s not the same as actually being there \u2013 that\u2019s why I enjoy Pagan conferences and festivals so much. But what you learn is much the same.<\/p>\n You don\u2019t get that with AI. You get a mishmash of vague and generic concepts from a mishmash of vague and unknown sources. There\u2019s no human connection, not even one mediated through a book or a computer.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Much of AI is unethical<\/h2>\n All of this is before we get to the ethics of AI. Facts can\u2019t be owned and information wants to be free, but books are the work of their authors and therefore their intellectual property. Taking them and repackaging them into some slick e-book on Amazon is theft. It gets worse when we talk about photography and other visual arts. AI has to start somewhere \u2013 it starts with an existing picture, created by a human. AI \u201cartwork\u201d isn\u2019t derivative work<\/a> \u2013 it\u2019s plagiarism.<\/p>\n And considering how little most authors, photographers, and visual artists make, the theft is significant. Theft is never OK, but the argument that stealing from record companies and movie studios is no big deal is far weaker when it comes to the material AI is stealing.<\/p>\n AI in someone\u2019s presentation<\/h2>\n***** ** A couple months ago I came across a video by someone I used to follow (no, I won\u2019t name them, for multiple reasons) who used AI to create their presentation. At least they were honest about it. They pointed out some places where AI got facts wrong, but mainly they used it as their talking points. My initial reaction was \u201chow lazy can you get?\u201d If I wanted AI\u2019s take on a subject I could have asked it myself. I wanted the presenter\u2019s thoughts and ideas.<\/p>\n ** *****At least it was free. But it still cost me time. That\u2019s not the reason why I no longer follow them, but it\u2019s yet another reason why I\u2019m unlikely to follow them again.<\/p>\n Learn to spot AI-created works (it\u2019s not hard)<\/h2>\n If you\u2019re a reader, I encourage you \u2013 I implore you \u2013 to avoid AI-created spiritual education. It\u2019s not hard to spot, but sometimes you have to do a little investigation. If you don\u2019t know the author, look them up. Do they have the kind of internet and social media presence that indicates they\u2019re a real person? I\u2019m not going to carry on a casual conversation with someone I don\u2019t know (or with someone I do know), but I do my best to answer questions. Most authors in the Pagan and magical world will answer inquiries<\/a>. If you don\u2019t know them, can\u2019t find them, and can\u2019t find anyone else who knows them, odds are good they\u2019re not a real person.<\/p>\n Also look at their catalog. Do they have an impossibly large offering of books and\/or courses, publishing at a rate no human could accomplish? If their output is greater and faster than Morgan Daimler<\/a> (whose output amazes me) they\u2019re probably not human.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Authors and teachers: offer what AI can\u2019t<\/h2>\n***** ** *****In the first season of Penny Dreadful<\/em>, Brona tells Ethan \u201cI\u2019m off to look for work that a machine can\u2019t do\u2026 yet anyway.\u201d There\u2019s wisdom in that for us. Which is not to say we should be whores but that we have to offer our readers, students, and clients something AI can\u2019t give them.<\/p>\n The most valuable thing we can offer is our experience. Anyone can write about the Wheel of the Year. Only a handful of people can write about celebrating the Fall Equinox in Denton, Texas for twenty years. Most anyone can write about a deity. Only a few of us can write about our first-hand experiences of Cernunnos<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yes, there\u2019s still a need for Witchcraft 101 books. Yes, there\u2019s still money to be made from writing them. The Path of Paganism<\/em> (which I consider a 200 level book) outsells Paganism in Depth<\/em> (a 300 level book) four to one. But we don\u2019t create value by repackaging the same old material for a new generation. We create value by bringing new and unique approaches to timeless traditions.<\/p>\n AI can\u2019t do that. AI will never be able to do that, because AI can\u2019t imagine a new ritual, go outside in the back yard, light some candles, and then do witchcraft. And then write about it.<\/p>\n Lineage flows through people<\/h2>\n***** ** *****The other thing we can give people is lineage. Now, \u201clineage\u201d has a specific meaning in some traditions, especially in Gardnerian Wicca. Here I mean it more generically.<\/p>\n When you read Mat Auryn\u2019s Psychic Witch<\/em><\/a> you learn from Mat and his experiences. But you also learn from the people who taught Mat, and the people who taught them. Mat lists Laurie Cabot as one of his biggest influences. I read some of her books very early on my Pagan journey and I can see her influence in his work. Not in a way that would be plagiarism, but in a way that is truly derivative work. Mat took what he learned from Laurie and built on it (and added his own original work, of course). Someday someone will take Mat\u2019s teachings and build on them, taking that line of witchcraft to new depths \u2013 they will extend the lineage.<\/p>\n This is how people become spiritual ancestors. This is how we find our spiritual ancestors. As a Druid, Ross Nichols is my spiritual ancestor. I learned from his books, I learned from his direct spiritual descendant (Philip Carr-Gomm), and I learned from the order Nichols founded. Transmission of ideas creates a spiritual lineage. AI can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Caveat Emptor \u2013 let the buyer beware<\/h2>\n******* ** AI is still very new. It is likely to get better over time. There may come a day when it has a use in spiritual education beyond a low-value cheat code, but that day is not today.<\/p>\n ** Caveat Emptor \u2013 let the buyer beware. Know what you\u2019re buying, where it comes from, and who created it. Magical, religious, and spiritual education created by AI may be cheap and easy, but it hasn\u2019t been vetted. Even if it\u2019s not wrong, it\u2019s going to be bland and generic. 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