Using Artificial Intelligence Wisely as Jehovah’s People

[exactor]

If anyone has concerns about AI 'learning'(!) from what you prompt, you may want to use venice.ai. I have privacy concerns about some projects I work on. Using Venice, all your work disappears when you exit the AI or close your browser. Another AI option to consider is LM Studio. One has to download LM Studio. Once that is finished, you can pick a Model you'd like to use. Everything you do with the Model you select is only on your HD.

[Regina J]

22 minutes ago, Hope said:

 

I lean on my actual friends as much as reasonable. But realistically, no one has the time or patience to hear me ALL the time. There are also things I'm perhaps embarrassed to confess to other people.

 

I have Jehovah, of course, but I appreciate the immediate response from the Copilot tool. I always pray before I use it and after, request scriptural responses, and never forget it's merely a tool- not a substitute for prayer or my real friends, who have been unfailingly helpful. 

 

Copilot is as close to a confidant at 2 am that I will ever have. I don't need it to have "feelings"; it's exhausting to (or expect someone to) commiserate all the time. The tone is kindly enough for me and I appreciate the "Spock" level of logic. Feelings aren't all they're cracked up to be.

Understand 

[JBee]

50 minutes ago, Hope said:

 

I lean on my actual friends as much as reasonable. But realistically, no one has the time or patience to hear me ALL the time. There are also things I'm perhaps embarrassed to confess to other people.

 

I have Jehovah, of course, but I appreciate the immediate response from the Copilot tool. I always pray before I use it and after, request scriptural responses, and never forget it's merely a tool- not a substitute for prayer or my real friends, who have been unfailingly helpful. 

 

Copilot is as close to a confidant at 2 am that I will ever have. I don't need it to have "feelings"; it's exhausting to (or expect someone to) commiserate all the time. The tone is kindly enough for me and I appreciate the "Spock" level of logic. Feelings aren't all they're cracked up to be.

I concur. It also helps those of us who also tend not to share internal thoughts and feelings with others (including Jehovah), I find the logical answers it gives can make clarify my thinking little so that I can better word what I want/need/feel etc. It can be a valuable tool, but definitely just a tool.

Edited 10 hours ago by JBee

[carlos]

On 12/12/2025 at 5:55 PM, Parale said:

Simplier than what? The FDS have already provided valuable tools for search, with no computer knowledge required, but how many publishers actually use them 🤷‍♂️

 

Paul, I agree we have some very useful tools, but they have some important limitations. If you wish to find a scripture or an article you need to type the exact literal words. Oh, yes, you can use some logical operators, but those are not for everybody. My parents are not even able to type without spelling mistakes, so they hardly ever find anything. Not to mention languages with diacritics or where words change depending on their role in the sentence.

 

A couple examples from real life of how AI can be of help. I was recently trying to remember a scripture about listening to both versions of a story. I can never find that scripture because I don't remember the exact words. So I asked ChatGPT: "What scripture in the Bible says that you need to hear both versions of a matter to be able to make a good decision? Please quote it from the New World Translation." The reply? "A commonly cited Bible verse that teaches this principle is Proverbs 18:17 'The first to state his case seems right, Until the other party comes and cross-examines him.'" This is what I mentioned before about semantic search. Instead of looking for the exact words, it understands what you are talking about and finds relevant information.

 

Another example. I asked ChatGPT "Please find some article exclusively on wol.jw.org about comforting someone suffering from old age". It gave me links to four excellent articles with a very brief summary of every one of them. Sure, I could have used the index, look up Comfort, then go down several pages of concepts until I found "the elderly" but this way it's much easier. 

 

I think a tool like that would be extremely useful to spend less time searching and more time studying.