Sigh. It all really depends on what "flavor" or sect of Hinduism you're following. There are groups that are very "Anti-Other" whether it's prejudice against lower castes, or other religions/cultures.
There are parts of Hindu Scripture that say things like there is not difference between groups, there is only life, and all life has equal opportunity to realize God. But people who wanna be bigots will cherry pick other parts of holy texts, to justify their bigotry.
Do you mean the part where they trained a large language model on scripture? That actually is somewhat a good idea, to be able to make the knowledge accessible. It's where they pretended it is Krishna himself speaking the generated text that is concerning. I am getting dystopian scifi vibes from it, like an anti-Christ incarnation of god into machine to deceive humanity.
In terms of the content itself, Hindu scripture is very tricky to read. There is content which you are straight up told not to read unless eg. you've experienced death and loss, lived life into old age, have a teacher who is a master of exegesis etc. There is too much outdated nonsense mixed into actual philosophizing. One who knows how to separate this is called a paramahamsa, or Supreme Swan -- the swan lives on both land and waters, and is said to be able to drink only the milk from a mixture of milk and water. Dumping scripture into Chat GPT for anyone to read nonsense mixed with truth is a very inversion of this tradition, so in that sense it is profane to me
i'm not up on Hinduism's rules about this kind of thing, but that has to be some level of profane right?
Sigh. It all really depends on what "flavor" or sect of Hinduism you're following. There are groups that are very "Anti-Other" whether it's prejudice against lower castes, or other religions/cultures.
There are parts of Hindu Scripture that say things like there is not difference between groups, there is only life, and all life has equal opportunity to realize God. But people who wanna be bigots will cherry pick other parts of holy texts, to justify their bigotry.
Do you mean the part where they trained a large language model on scripture? That actually is somewhat a good idea, to be able to make the knowledge accessible. It's where they pretended it is Krishna himself speaking the generated text that is concerning. I am getting dystopian scifi vibes from it, like an anti-Christ incarnation of god into machine to deceive humanity.
In terms of the content itself, Hindu scripture is very tricky to read. There is content which you are straight up told not to read unless eg. you've experienced death and loss, lived life into old age, have a teacher who is a master of exegesis etc. There is too much outdated nonsense mixed into actual philosophizing. One who knows how to separate this is called a paramahamsa, or Supreme Swan -- the swan lives on both land and waters, and is said to be able to drink only the milk from a mixture of milk and water. Dumping scripture into Chat GPT for anyone to read nonsense mixed with truth is a very inversion of this tradition, so in that sense it is profane to me
Considering how like 90% of what American Christians do is blasphemy or sacrilege, does it matter at all?