Pope Rave
Pope Rave
Did the Pope launch a rave via video message for a 75 year old bishop in Slovakia?
This one was fun.
Also if you haven't read it yet, my last post is something I took a week to write and had been putting off writing since August.
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But start your day with Pope Rave, it will cheer you up.
It's funny, I had the exact same reaction instantly: I need to find out if this is real. My strategy was a little different--I checked out whether the DJ, Padre Guilherme, really existed and really did this kind of performance, and that was pretty easy to source back to substantive bodies of information that predated this video circulating. (I figured that if Guilherme was an invention, the whole thing had to be fake.) Then I looked into whether Bernard Bober was real (yes) and whether he'd had a 75th birthday (yes). I don't know how much longer those kinds of strategies are going to work because of the ongoing pollution of older informational archives, but it feels easier to me to apply a kind of Occam's Razor logic to something if I do this kind of checking simply because most people creating AI slop/disinformation don't bother anchoring what they're doing in this kind of verifiable but not widely known information.
So God bless the Pope and DJ Padre Guilherme, really, because this is a fun video.