Is the #Pope a Star Wars fan? Also: a strong and well thought-out message on #AI, social media and other things that interest us here on Fedi. Never thought I will read this list of tech terms in an official message from the #Vatican: > Chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) are proving to be surprisingly effective at covert persuasion through continuous optimization of personalized interaction. The dialogic, adaptive, mimetic structure of these language models is capable of imitating human feelings and thus simulating a relationship. https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/messages/communications/documents/20260124-messaggio-comunicazioni-sociali.html