ChatGPT "authors" a hymn...
  • Liam
    Posts: 5,464
    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPtFpVMDBFr/

    Perhaps it just needs a tambourine or cowbell . . . .

    * * *

    There is no I - nor We, Me, nor Us - in AI.
    Thanked by 3irishtenor Charles Abbysmum
  • Anna_BendiksenAnna_Bendiksen
    Posts: 268
    Earth and all stars,
    Screens glowing brightly,
    Sing to the LORD a new song;
    Binary code,
    Hardware and software,
    Sing to the LORD a new song;
    He has done maaaaaaaarvelous things:
    AI will praise Him with a new song!
    Thanked by 3Liam Abbysmum CharlesW
  • JonathanLCJonathanLC
    Posts: 76
    Earth and Stars, Praise the Lord

    Verse 1
    Earth and stars, praise the Lord,
    Screens aglow, bless His Name!
    Sing to the Lord a song made new,
    For He has done marvelous things.

    Verse 2
    Praise the Lord in binary code,
    Hardware, software, bless His Name!
    Sing to the Lord a song made new,
    For He has done marvelous things.

    Verse 3
    AI too shall praise His Name,
    All minds created turn to You;
    Sing to the Lord a song made new,
    For He has done marvelous things.

    https://suno.com/s/BaNdLfFCnWxbT5Ip
    Thanked by 2Liam Abbysmum
  • GerardH
    Posts: 620
    Reminds me of a book I haven't read: Our Lady of the Artilects by Andrew Gillsmith.
    World leaders are on edge when reports start coming in of next generation androids having strange, apocalyptic visions of a lady in white.
    Thanked by 2Liam StimsonInRehab
  • probe
    Posts: 62
    The insta comments are delicious ;)

    Thanked by 1Liam
  • Diapason84
    Posts: 140
    Earth and all stars,
    Screens glowing brightly,
    Sing to the LORD a new song;
    Binary code,
    Hardware and software,
    Sing to the LORD a new song;
    He has done maaaaaaaarvelous things:
    AI will praise Him with a new song!


    The namesake text of this hymn is one of many reasons to stay away from the 1982 Hymnal.
    C. Winfred Douglas would be mortified.
    Thanked by 1Anna_Bendiksen
  • Liam
    Posts: 5,464
    That hymn always makes me think of the beauty of the Silencing of The Machines in this immortal movie scene

    https://youtu.be/UGXW-PpVL7I?si=VaO4nmXUSM8Ogt7t&t=20

    Tangential PS: When I first traveled to Florence and Venice over 30 years ago (before the advent of large cruise ships to the latter), I expected to love Florence and tolerate Venice. Mercifully, I stayed on the other side of the Arno so I was able to tolerate Florence (but found the historic city center intolerably noisy), and was gobsmacked by the near lack of machine sounds in Venice in early November other than slow moving vaporetti and faster water taxis - otherwise, almost all the sounds in Venice were natural or human plus church bells (and the occasional sound of media playing inside a real home). I fell in love with that strange urban environment within 24 hours because of that.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 606
    Sounds novus ordo-y...literally.
    Thanked by 1Anna_Bendiksen
  • RoborgelmeisterRoborgelmeister
    Posts: 307
    The namesake text of his hymn is one of many reasons to stay away from the 1982 Hymnal. C. Winfred Douglas would be mortified.

    He was more involved with the music, and some translations. The Hymnal 1940 brought us I sing a song of the saints of God, which has many detractors.
    Thanked by 1Anna_Bendiksen
  • Diapason84
    Posts: 140
    He was more involved with the music, and some translations. The Hymnal 1940 brought us I sing a song of the saints of God, which has many detractors.


    I mentioned him because of his influence on EC music overall. Yes, that hymn is infantile, but at least they stuck it in the children's section. The 1982 foreshadows the EC's drift towards wokeism.
  • RoborgelmeisterRoborgelmeister
    Posts: 307
    The Hymnal 1940 had several texts that were Pelagian at heart, which were not included in the the H82. I sing a song (which contains a doctrinal error) was slated for omission, but the delegates at the General Convention reinserted it. Earth and all stars was written for a school. It was indended to be a modern "Benedicite, omnia opera," for which it serves adequately, even if tediously. It is very popular in day schools in LCMS, ELCA and TEC. Of course, popularity is not an adequate measure of quality.
    Like many hymns (For All The Saints Who From Their Labors Rest) a scalpul can be useful. I became quite adept at shortening hymns in one place where the next service was always breathing down our necks. No one ever complained about singing only a selection of EAAS. Marvelous should be sung like Billy Cyrstal's impression of Ricardo Montalban.
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