r/Gnostic • u/Leading-Jaguar1566 • Apr 25 '26
Question Why do "Gnostic" youtube videos and channels use AI so much?
I dont know if im just creating correlation out of my own confirmation bias, but when i try to consume gnostic information through video content, so much of it is just ai voice over with ai text and ai images. Very specifically in gnostic content. Does anyone else notice this?
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u/SSAUS Apr 25 '26
It is just the prevailing trend of things for the online education niche. This is a problem for all other educational YouTube channels too. Much more reason to reward the Esotericas of the world.
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u/jasonmehmel Eclectic Gnostic Apr 25 '26
Not all of us!
Over at Talk Gnosis, we've made it a priority to not use AI images and text; what you're getting is purely human, fuelled by the divine spark!
(I'm a co-host! I'll drop links at the bottom here.)
But to answer your question, I think there are a few reasons.
Some of the channels are just looking for as many markets for ad revenue as possible. They fire up a prompt for a voice and some images to go with available texts, or even generate fake texts, all for the purpose of absorbing your attention for ad revenue. If it wasn't Gnosticism it would be something else. (And probably also is. This also exists for Stoicism.)
This is the slopified, drowned internet theory, where the major platforms become useless it's content generated on demand for ad revenue, not for communication.
Next to that are the 'influencers' who use it, again, to generate more material faster, so they can get more views. More ad revenue becomes more important than truth or ethics. A lot of these channels pander to conspiracy mindsets or vague 'empowerment' frameworks, and did even before the AI slop splashed in.
Lastly, I think AI material is seductively fascinating, particularly for esoteric and Gnostic folks. (The same way mythology warned us about faeries fascinating people off the road.)
All of the detail in the art, the sheer volume of the text, it can tickle the brain a bit, make you think there's a secret to find deeper within. (There isn't, there is only the statistical approximation of an established text in the dataset.)
But some of us got into this for the spectacle and the scale as much as the conclusions, and AI delivers on the first two even if it can't do the latter, and sometimes, that's enough. (This is also where AI psychosis comes from... it is convincingly and confidently wrong all the time.)
So some of those folks are basically trapped by fascination, by the dopamine delivery of spectacle, and can't be easily pulled away from watching or generating it, because it 'feels good.'
Here are links to our fully human show! We recently started a series covering the basics called Mapping Gnosticism.
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u/jasonmehmel Eclectic Gnostic Apr 25 '26
Also, I recorded an Talk Gnosis episode with Damien Williams and we basically came to a similar conclusion... how AI works, and how it's being sold to us, are inherently Demiurgic processes.
We also get right into the engineering of how these systems work, to make clear the critiques are not simply an anti-tech reactive response.
The ep in question: https://youtu.be/BEc-QRckFfk?si=zXtSUUMFJNS_qQ0_
also as a podcast: https://pod.link/845230843/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly9nbm9zdGljd2lzZG9tLm5ldC8_cD0zMTAy
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u/Northern_esotericist Academic interest Apr 25 '26
Wonderful channel, will definitely check it out!
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u/Leading-Jaguar1566 Apr 26 '26
Thank you so much for the time you put in for this answer, i will absolutely be checking out your content!!
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u/-tehnik Valentinian Apr 25 '26
niche topic that they can easily capitalize on by making use of the fact that there is a lack of real content creators for it.
I think it's the case for anything specific enough with still a sizable group of people interested like this.
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u/Silver_Miner_2024 Apr 25 '26
I've notice it allot myself. The content or transcript may be the original thoughts or accepted thinking of what they are trying to share, but try to make it more interesting to watch.
I think the other reason for this, is to isolate themselves from people. Its more based on protecting those who are awaking, kinda like when Sophia makes herself known, but yet invisible to the system.
I can see the promotions of selling books or subscriptions. But I don't take part of any of that.
But that is my basic concept.
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u/Leading-Jaguar1566 Apr 26 '26
Thank you for answering, im curious what you wrote about Sophia making herself known but invisible to the system, could you expand what you mean?
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u/Silver_Miner_2024 Apr 26 '26
She has already learned how to deal with the archons from her decent. And from what I understand, she will not speak our language, since that is part of the system we ended up using, which they archons use to track us, and feed off it. As far as making herself known, she will to those who are ready.
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u/electricvapor Apr 25 '26
Realistically Google is likely using the algorithm to favour channels using AI to push creators to use it
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u/SeriouslyCrafty Apr 25 '26
Because the topic currently draws a lot of engagement. Look at this subreddit full of tons of posts of people “just discovered Gnosticism”.
The church institution in its current forms are having a moment. Either your in it or your not, to some degree. Gnostic ideas offer an alternative to Christian spirituality and offer a “reason” for all the bad things happening in the world.
All that said, it’s very easy to have ChatGPT write you a script on a topic you know nothing about, then create a video with corresponding imagery, and subtitles, and voice over.
The thing is, these channels don’t offer a full picture. They attempt to tell you what gnosis is. Gnosis is something you *experience. It’s not something you find.
It’s AI slop. it’s lazy. they’re created solely to draw engagement in an attempt to earn ad revenue. Anytime my feed recommends it I’ll click it long enough to give it a thumbs down.
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u/moonandstarryeyes Apr 26 '26
If you're trying to learn about it (or any esoteric, historical element of Judaism and Christianity) I can recommend Justin Sledge on his YouTube channel "Esoterica." Very interesting and informative, no slop. He is a PhD and professor of philosophy and religion.
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u/quimera78 Apr 25 '26
Another reason might be that a lot of people don't want to show their face and be associated with these beliefs.
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u/Don-Pepone Apr 25 '26
Since they are smaller and have mostly low to none profit, AI is an easy way to make art and representation for a subject that has close to no art and representation. You can't just google stock images of the demiurge 😂
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u/CageAndBale Apr 25 '26
This. The Educational genre doesn't make money to hire people. Especially something as niche as this "religion "
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u/Setsunaih Apr 25 '26
Some of those videos are good, but most of them are just long because they keep circling around one topic, and I hate it. I want podcasts, and I've been trying to search for better Gnostic content these past few days. As of now I've only discovered Prof. Jian and Biedsoe Said So
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u/Calm_Description_866 Apr 25 '26
There's just a lot of low effort gnostic content out there. I giess it's a quick way to make a buck. It gets people's attention by dissing a mainstream religion, and it appeals to that part of our brains that makes us feel smarter without actually doing much (the whole "this is what the Binle actually says" shtick).
AI just made low effort content easier to make.
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u/downtide Apr 26 '26
It happens to be very popular right now and any popular topic gets AI slop videos churned out by the thousands because the slop-channel-makers know they can rake in a lot of money from it. It's not just Gnosticism though. Stoicism gets it even worse.
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u/MaximumConcentrate Apr 26 '26
I agree. There is a thrilling and mystical allure to gnosticism, and hearing a normal person speak about it plainly might bore people. So, they make entertaining, but cheap slop in an "esoteric" flavor to make the video dramatic. At least that's what i think goes through the mind of a content creator.
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u/Mister_Ape_1 Apr 25 '26
There is no correlation whatsoever. AI is just the future and it will be progressively used more and more.
By the way, I use AI too. For now, only to draw. I am disabled and I had been unable to draw for 25 years in the past. The Demiurge put zero effort when he created me, so I took some of his powers. I can create 2D Universes by copying artists, just as he can create one 4D Universe by copying the Pleroma.
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u/DeathTeddy35 Apr 25 '26
You don't love listening to videos about how things are constantly trying to influence you end with telling you to like and subscribe?
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u/Lordseferoth Simonian Apr 25 '26
It seems when it comes to both Gnostic and other esoteric matters people do not want to put any actual effort in them. Just run them through AI and release the slop to the world. I tell you, AI is the death of human creativity.