Last week, the Vatican unveiled Luce, a Japanese-style cartoon character that will serve as the Catholic Church’s mascot for its upcoming jubilee year, as well as its Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the Vatican’s chief organizer for the jubilee year who presented Luce to the world, said that the mascot was “created from the desire to enter into the world of pop culture, so beloved by our young people”.
I believe his excellency should have considered his desires more carefully, because there is no clearer sign that Luce has indeed entered pop culture and is beloved by young people than the fact that there are now dozens of AI-generated hardcore pornographic images of her on the internet.
On Civitai, a site for sharing custom AI models and generating images, users have created at least a dozen different Luce-themed AI models specifically for generating images of the Vatican’s mascot. These models are not explicitly designed to produce adult content, but as I’ve reported previously Civitai makes it easy to modify AI models and combine them with others that are designed to produce pornographic images, and that is often what users on the site do with any AI models of any character or real person.
Looking at just one model page, Luce - Vatican’s Mascot [PONY], in the section where users share images they’ve created with that model, I can see images of Luce nude, covered in semen, and a nude Luce alongside what appears to be a Luce Fleshlight-type sex toy.
“If you came here for what everyone else came here for, then you won’t be disappointed,” one user said in a comment on the model’s page. “Lord forgive me for what I am about to do,” another user said.
This is the best one on the Civitai page
That’s a novel use of “best”.
Most accurate to real life*
As someone raised a Catholic… I agree.
Nah, Luce is a girl.
If you have dark humor and a critical view of religion then it’s kinda funny. Obviously not the real thing, I just find this situation kinda hilarious and hard to imagine that the church did not see this coming from miles away.
“We’ve staunchly refused to admit to, or reflect on any of our behaviors for centuries, while burying the evidence of our misdeeds, and bullying all naysayers.”
Yeah, I can imagine it’s hard for the Church to have perspective.
Only works if it was a boy mascot lol
The Catholic Church. We’ve made a few changes.
I don’t think it’s a fair comparison because the official character is clearly a nonsexualized child, but they still should have known better.
There’s no such thing as nonsexualized child in the catholic church
(/s)
Catholicism wow!
Get em while they’re young!
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https://archive.ph/d1NnR Sure it is.
An archive link was in the post body, just fyi.
Sho’nuff. I don’t make any claims to my observational skills.
Who could’ve foreseen this!
This is so creepy…
I mean, yeah.
Didn’t they only announce the mascot like two weeks ago?
This has taken longer than most porn sensations to establish themselves, I’m a little disappointed in the community. Then again, she’s an underage anime girl, so I guess disappointment is the default state.
nah, it’s just the news site being waaayyy behind the perverts on 4chan
Sometimes it needs time to spin up.
Especially if the character comes from an unconventional source where there aren’t many hentai artists.
I only heard of the existence of the character a couple of days ago.
underage anime girl
Bit redundant that.
Has the Pope not heard of
commandmentrule 34?Of fucking course.
