Perfil (big center-right publication in Argentina, entire article, positive, covered what I said quite faithfully)
The Verge (entire short article, positive, less faithful, in particular had a title I didn’t endorse)
The Atlantic (just two lines, neutral, maybe slightly leaning negative, not very faithful, also misleading title EDIT: I’m not sure if I misremembered it or if they edited, because on a reread it was more than 2 lines and also maybe I’d consider it to lean positive)
“Leo nevertheless stresses he is not anti-technology. On the contrary, “technological development has significantly improved the living conditions of humanity.” It may also have increased the writing output of some Vatican officials. Modern popes do not write encyclicals from beginning to end. The more routine passages are left to subordinates. And according to an analysis by Linch Zhang, a tech blogger, parts of Magnifica Humanitas seem to have been written by AI, and specifically by Claude. Anthropic’s brainchild has stylistic quirks, such as a fondness for the word “genuinely”, which are mirrored in the encyclical. An AI detector, Pangram, identified 11% of the text in the opening 20 paragraphs as AI-generated. The same test on previous encyclicals returned 0%.”
“One of the people who first used Pangram to analyze Pope Leo’s encyclical noted that, because only some sections seemed AI-generated or AI-assisted, perhaps it was not the pope himself but some senior Vatican officials who had used AI while drafting portions of the text. That didn’t stop headlines such as “Did the Pope Use AI to Write About the Dangers of AI?” (The Vatican did not respond to a request for comment, although a writer who covers the Vatican said on X that the AI allegations are “100 percent false” and that Leo actually drafted the encyclical with pen and paper.)”
Small update: Life Site News covered it in nontrivial detail. Moderately faithful. Never heard of them before but Wikipedia classifies it as a “far-right pro-life Catholic publication,” so I’d count it as closer to the “alt-media” side of the “traditional media <> alt-media” spectrum than Russia Today, which was previously the most “alt-media” I’ve seen of the big coverage so far.
Moderately annoyed that section has now been deleted from Wikipedia without discussion, for what is afaict pretty flimsy reasons. Makes me think a little less of Wikipedia, naturally.
(As a primary source it’d be wrong for me to weigh in directly, ofc)
Where was it published in traditional media?
The big ones I’ve found:
The Economist (neutral, maybe slightly leaning positive[1], last paragraph here and the opening they used for twitter)
Perfil (big center-right publication in Argentina, entire article, positive, covered what I said quite faithfully)
The Verge (entire short article, positive, less faithful, in particular had a title I didn’t endorse)
The Atlantic (just two lines, neutral, maybe slightly leaning negative, not very faithful, also misleading title EDIT: I’m not sure if I misremembered it or if they edited, because on a reread it was more than 2 lines and also maybe I’d consider it to lean positive)
[2]Il Manifesto (left-leaning, appears faithful)
More Spanish
More Italian
Edge cases for stuff that’s not traditional media but I wouldn’t consider centrally alt media either: Snopes, Russia Today, Wikipedia
“Leo nevertheless stresses he is not anti-technology. On the contrary, “technological development has significantly improved the living conditions of humanity.” It may also have increased the writing output of some Vatican officials. Modern popes do not write encyclicals from beginning to end. The more routine passages are left to subordinates. And according to an analysis by Linch Zhang, a tech blogger, parts of Magnifica Humanitas seem to have been written by AI, and specifically by Claude. Anthropic’s brainchild has stylistic quirks, such as a fondness for the word “genuinely”, which are mirrored in the encyclical. An AI detector, Pangram, identified 11% of the text in the opening 20 paragraphs as AI-generated. The same test on previous encyclicals returned 0%.”
“One of the people who first used Pangram to analyze Pope Leo’s encyclical noted that, because only some sections seemed AI-generated or AI-assisted, perhaps it was not the pope himself but some senior Vatican officials who had used AI while drafting portions of the text. That didn’t stop headlines such as “Did the Pope Use AI to Write About the Dangers of AI?” (The Vatican did not respond to a request for comment, although a writer who covers the Vatican said on X that the AI allegations are “100 percent false” and that Leo actually drafted the encyclical with pen and paper.)”
Small update: Life Site News covered it in nontrivial detail. Moderately faithful. Never heard of them before but Wikipedia classifies it as a “far-right pro-life Catholic publication,” so I’d count it as closer to the “alt-media” side of the “traditional media <> alt-media” spectrum than Russia Today, which was previously the most “alt-media” I’ve seen of the big coverage so far.
Moderately annoyed that section has now been deleted from Wikipedia without discussion, for what is afaict pretty flimsy reasons. Makes me think a little less of Wikipedia, naturally.
(As a primary source it’d be wrong for me to weigh in directly, ofc)
Being featured on Snopes is sort of a major achievement IMO :)
And positive lean too! As opposed to a takedown haha.