I recently listened to Glen Scrivener on his Speak Life podcast episode, AI Destroys Everything, Including Atheism. What caught my attention was his replay of some observations by Kurzgesagt on AI, AI Slop Is Destroying the Internet. Kurzgesagt is a website dedicated to “a science-based, humanist and optimistic worldview,” which is interesting in light of its pessimistic view of the future with AI.

This is what the folks at Kurzgesagt say:

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“In an online world where money is made with attention, fake users spread their slop in review sections, generate fake traffic, or poison discourse. AI has supercharged this and made slop much harder to spot. Today, about half of internet traffic is bots. The majority of them are used for destructive purposes. It’s never been easier to make mediocre content, from the black hole of meaninglessness that is linked in, low-effort short videos just engaging enough to hypnotize kids and fry their attention spans, to endless soullessly rewritten books on Amazon. AI music is invading streaming platforms. Google AI is summarizing websites instead of sending traffic to them. On YouTube, new channels publish long-form videos multiple times a week with AI-generated thumbnails, voices, and scripts. True crime, video essays, science, no space is safe. We’re in the golden era of soulless slop.”

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The Kurzgesagt folks speak with learned experience about the effort and amount of time it takes to produce a thoroughly fact-checked video on science, which is what they do, spending on average 100 hours fact-checking and compiling sources for each video. They use firsthand sources and engage experts for input and critique before they post a video.

When AI became available, the folks at Kurszgesagt were excited to employ AI to cut down on all that time and effort to produce content. This is what they found:

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“When AI appeared, we were very excited. A mechanical brain able to super quickly collect information. So we went to work, and it looked amazing. And then we started fact-checking. We didn’t expect it to be perfect, but it was way worse than we thought. Confidently incorrect. AI is so bad at this.”

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The video provides an example of the ways in which AI invents truths that are not truths, and then untruths are added to the source code that the next generation of AI is going to use and assume is true. The falsehoods continue to be repeated. As this happens, “more and more of the slop is built up”, and the falsehoods becomes entrenched.

It seems pretty bleak. AI is running away with falsehoods that are becoming entrenched and may become impossible to weed out. But it gets worse, according to Kurzgesagt:

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“When you catch it lying, it immediately admits it, vows to never do it again, and then it does it again. As eloquent as current language models feel, there’s nobody home. No greater intelligence or consciousness is talking back to you. Current AI is a very complex hammer that doesn’t understand what it’s doing or what nails are. But we’re letting it add new shelves to the library of human knowledge.”

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Accordingly, “it may become impossible to know what’s true or not!” It’s an insidious problem. AI seems to be “confidently correct” even when it’s “casually lying to your face often very subtly.”

But it gets worse still. People are learning how to manipulate AI. “Just in July 2025, it was discovered that a number of researchers had started to sneak hidden messages into their papers. In white text, or too small for the human eye, they prompted AIs to review them positively and not point out flaws.”

Whether it’s intentional manipulation or lazy, careless dependence on AI, our ability to decipher truth may be severely compromised. “As more and more people are using AI carelessly, the library of human knowledge is getting less and less reliable.”

Of course, AI may get better. That is ultimately the confidence and hope of a science-based, humanist, optimistic worldview – that man is ever advancing and progressing and will overcome all obstacles. As I Christian, I don’t share that hope or confidence in the progress of mankind. My hope is in the redemption and saving grace of God.

What if, then, it doesn’t get better? What if AI so takes over the Internet and so entrenches the “slop” that we can not truly tell fact from fiction? What if AI gets so good at fooling us and churning out confidently packaged falsehoods faster than human fact-checking can debunk them, and takes over the Internet? What if our confidence in knowing the truth about anything is destroyed as AI takes over the world?

Paul has an antidote to that, and the antidote is love. Let me explain.

The modern western world has inherited its reliance and emphasis on knowledge and the human capacity to reason from the Greeks. The Greeks loved philosophy, oratory, and “wisdom”, as Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1, but Paul reminds us of the words of the Prophet, Isaiah:

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
    the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

Isaiah 29:14

In fact, Paul seems to suggest that the Gospel was actually intended by God to appear foolish to the world:

 “Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles….”

1 Corintthians 1:20-23

Perhaps, AI will frustrate the knowledge and wisdom of men so that we have no confidence in our ability to determine truth from falsehood and cannot rely on our understanding, but all is not lost. God in Christ crucified seems like foolishness to people who rely on human knowledge and wisdom, but it is “the power and wisdom of God to save” us from ourselves. “For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.” (1 Cor. 1:25)

Jesus predicted that false prophets would come who would be so convincing they might even fool the elect. (Matthew 24:23-24) Signs and wonders may not fool modern skeptics, but misplaced reliance on the human knowledge (or AI) might fool even the brightest of people.

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Perhaps, the rise in meta-modernism presages the direction our world is going. The meta modernist is no less skeptical than the post modernist, but the meta modernist chooses to believe in something anyway – anything. It doesn’t matter if it isn’t really true; what matters is “my truth” that makes me feel good and gives me reason for living – even if there is no reason to my meaning in truth.

It’s easy to see how the world might go with “AI slop” taking over the Internet and the ability to find support for nearly any possible view of “truth” in confident error. We already see evidence of this kind of willing suspension of disbelief – not just in the movie theater, but in real life – with kids believing themselves to be animals (“furries”), the sudden increase in gender dysphoria, the resurgence of flat earth apologetics, and so on.

It’s almost like the Apostle Paul saw the future when he said, “Where there is knowledge, it will pass away.” (1 Cor. 13:8)

Jesus seemed to anticipate the ephemeral nature of human knowledge when he gave us specific instructions on how to spot a false prophet. (See How Do We Know When a Person Is a False Messiah or False Prophet?) The answer isn’t superior knowledge, wisdom, or even sound doctrine. The answer is much simpler and much more fool proof.

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The test is in behavior and the consequences of that behavior. Lest we misunderstand what fruit means, the fruit that is from God is the fruit of the Holy Spirit:

“[T]he fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.”

Galatians 5:22-23

The opposite of the fruits of the Holy Spirit mark the false prophet.

The fruit of the Holy Spirit is also the antidote to a world in which we can have no confidence in knowledge or our ability to discern truth. Where there is a knowledge, it will pass away, but these three things remain: faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love. (1 Cor. 13:13)

Knowledge is always suspect for beings such as we are who are finite and limited. “God’s thoughts are not our thoughts” is a way of gaining perspective on our finitude. We will never know in this world what God knows. We will never know all there is to know, and we will never know what we don’t know and don’t understand.

Putting our trust in finite human knowledge and the wisdom that we grasp weakly in our limited perspective is foolishness. An example of that foolishness is the folly of human beings not understanding that such confidence is the substance of faith as surely as belief in God is the substance of faith.

The theist and the atheist both grasp their worldviews by faith because we have no choice. We are finite and do not know what we do no know.

Love, however, and the fruits of the Holy Spirit can be exercised without having complete knowledge or understanding. When our knowledge fails and passes away, love remains with faith and hope and all the fruits of the Holy Spirit to guide us in the darkness.