Moses Cirulis - Mo Stella Art

10/10/2026

Just for spooky season. 👻

10/08/2026

10/08/2026

Inktober 2026 in 360° 👉 These two squirrels are sitting there all peaceful on their picnic blanket... But it won't be long—I'll soon be drawing lots of other characters around them! 😈

Day 5: Smack 👄

10/08/2026

No love is forbidden 🌽

10/08/2026

The Pope Says AI Art Lacks the Spark of Humanity

Pope Leo XIV has waded into the fight over AI, and he is firmly on the side of human artists. In remarks from the Vatican, he argued that the gap between human art and machine output is not merely a matter of quality but what he called an "ontological difference," a difference in the very nature of being. In his telling, one is alive in a way the other, however convincing, can never be.

Real art, he said, grows out of experience, emotion, and the creative spark of a living person, while an AI model runs a statistical calculation drawn from millions of works other people already made. Put bluntly, in a line he returned to, "algorithms lack the spark of humanity." Authentic culture carries it; machine output only borrows it, secondhand, from everyone it trained on.

He pushed the point into deeper territory. Citing what the source identifies as his own encyclical on AI, he held that machines lack the soul, the emotional depth, the consciousness that give experience its meaning. Reaching back to St. Augustine, he described true art as driven by the restlessness of the human heart in search of truth, a hunger for meaning, beauty, justice that he said no pattern-matching system can stand in for.

The Pope urged society, governments, cultural institutions to treat it as urgent to keep human-made art clearly distinct from machine productions as AI content floods every corner of culture. The Church, he signaled, wants a renewed alliance with the artists, curators he sees as keepers of that spark. It is only one side of an unsettled argument about what AI can or cannot do, but a forceful one, from an unusually large pulpit.

🎨: on X

10/06/2026

Show off your fanart in the comments! No AI!

04/14/2026

I released the latest episode of Ohmworld this month, which finishes the story Spanish Train Magic!

Can Abby defeat the demon Beelzebubbles? Find out below!