By Julian Kwasniewski, The Catholic Thing - AI’s image-generating ability is about to separate the sheep from the goats, or the lovers of reality from those who don’t care whether or not anything they sense, love, or reason about is real. For the first time in history, society will need to decide whether or not it values reality. People have debated metaphysics, religion, science, art, and many other things. But there’s always been an assumption that they are arguing over a world of things and people. This world is on the verge of being replaced by a fantasy simulacrum made to deceive.