Vatican Uses AI-Detector to Show AI Bros Pope’s Anti-AI Encyclical Isn’t AI-Generated
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When the Vatican is running AI detectors to prove authenticity, provenance has gone mainstream as a trust requirement. Any organization publishing high-stakes text—policy, research, financials—should assume they’ll be asked to prove it wasn’t machine-fabricated and plan watermarking or audit trails accordingly.
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