Episode 822: Seven Signs AI Wrote Your Sermon, Finding and Developing Your Preaching Voice, and A New Study on AI’s Impact on the Brain That Should Scare Every Pastor
Should you use AI to write your sermon? Maybe not. Three years after ChatGPT, we don’t just sound the same. We’re starting to think the same, or not think at all. Enter brain rot. Carey walks through seven tells that give away AI writing, shows you how to find the voice only you have, and unpacks a new studies on cognitive surrender that every pastor needs to hear before next Sunday’s sermon.
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