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Euronews reports, "Pope Francis is the latest public figure to become an unlikely star – or victim – of digital technology’s ever-growing tentacles, as fabricated AI-generated images of the Holy Father have been taking social media by storm."

“Historically speaking... the Church has been extremely technologically optimistic and progressive, perhaps more so than any other organization in the history of planet,” stated US-based professor and AI ethicist Brian Patrick Green. “However, this is not the current perception.”

“I think Pope Francis has a certain amount of ‘cool’ to him, so that people want to work with his image and see what they can do with it,” Brian Patrick Green told Euronews Culture. “The images are amusing but they are also a warning - we need to be careful of what we believe, even if we see a picture of it.”

Brian Green, director, technology ethics, quoted by Euronews.