This is just absurdism using the fact that there’s a new pope as the basis of the meme.

It could just as easily be him saying God says it’s ok to throw car batteries into the ocean.

This is a really interesting paragraph to me because I definitely think these results shouldn’t be published or we’ll only get more of these “whoopsie” experiments.

At the same time though, I think it is desperately important to research the ability of LLMs to persuade people sooner rather than later when they become even more persuasive and natural-sounding. The article mentions that in studies humans already have trouble telling the difference between AI written sentences and human ones.