Fantasy or faith? One company’s AI-generated Bible content stirs controversy

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The AI Bible is run by Pray.com, a for-profit company that claims to have “the world’s #1 app for faith and prayer.” The new AI videos are being warmly received online, according to Ryan Beck, Pray’s Chief Technology Officer. To him, the AI Bible is the latest example of that willingness to embrace new ways of storytelling. Pray.com had been experimenting with AI-generated images and videos to illustrate Biblical content for a few years before the latest craze began, said Max Bard, the company’s Vice President for Content. “The AI Bible is a way to really bring these stories to life in a way that people have never seen before. “We want to gear on the side of entertainment,” he said, “because we think especially biblical content is over-indexed to educational.”