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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0by Weyland Smith<\/p>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0by Weyland Smith<\/p>\n
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Wey’s Predictions<\/strong><\/p>\n (He’s been wrong about everything else!)<\/strong><\/p>\n Pagans–especially Wiccans–won’t<\/em> like using AI to construct spells, help write how-tos, or do magickal research.\u00a0 An absence of flesh and blood humanity will be thought to\u00a0 taint the effectiveness of supernatural dealings, and many will avoid all use of AI in their shadow work.\u00a0 No real magick is possible in it, they’ll say.\u00a0 (Two flaws in this logic: just how human are the entities and forces we’re dealing with already?\u00a0 And aren’t these objections akin to believing you have to write out spells in longhand instead of using a keyboard to ensure success?)\u00a0 This trend won’t last forever, but it will be a significant one in our lifetimes.\u00a0 Result: As AI becomes ubiquitous, Pagans will turn to human discussion groups for ideas and inspiration.\u00a0 The irony here is that these chat groups will probably get together online.\u00a0 And so it goes…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Be Useful”<\/strong><\/p>\n Schwarzengger said it first.\u00a0 Papa Schwarzenegger, that is.<\/p>\n (Source:\u00a0People<\/em> magazine.)<\/p>\n Decades later, those words inspired a book.\u00a0 Love him or hate him, he made the\u00a0New York Times<\/em> bestseller list.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n The only lists\u00a0Weyland<\/em> ever makes it onto all rhyme with “SIT”.\u00a0 Send condolences to: weylandsmith@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0by Weyland Smith Wey’s Predictions (He’s been wrong about everything else!) Pagans–especially Wiccans–won’t like using AI to construct spells, help write how-tos, or do magickal research.\u00a0 An absence of flesh and blood humanity will be thought to\u00a0 taint the effectiveness of supernatural dealings, and many will avoid all use of AI in their shadow work.\u00a0 No real magick is possible in it, they’ll say.\u00a0 (Two flaws in this logic: just how human are the entities and forces we’re dealing with already?\u00a0 And aren’t these objections akin to believing you have to write out spells in longhand instead of using a keyboard to ensure success?)\u00a0 This trend won’t last forever, but it will be a significant one in our lifetimes.\u00a0 Result: As AI becomes ubiquitous, Pagans will turn to human discussion groups for ideas and inspiration.\u00a0 The irony here is that these chat groups will probably get together online.\u00a0 And so it goes… “Be Useful” Schwarzengger said it first.\u00a0 Papa Schwarzenegger, that is. (Source:\u00a0People magazine.) Decades later, those words inspired a book.\u00a0 Love him or hate him, he made the\u00a0New York Times bestseller list. Bio The only lists\u00a0Weyland ever makes it onto all rhyme with “SIT”.\u00a0 Send condolences to: weylandsmith@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-columns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29646,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645\/revisions\/29646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}