AI-dolatry - by which Men "worship the works of their own hands"

In private correspondence I came-up with the term AI-dolatry which William James Tychonievich has seized upon and elaborated thus: 

Idolatry is exactly what it is: taking something we ourselves have made -- human-created software mindlessly plagiarizing and imitating human-created content -- and treating it as some font of wisdom. 

When [a fellow Christian blogger] wrote that he was "pretty spooked" [by the apparent quality of "AI"-produced content], I couldn't help but think of that comment of Nietzsche's about painting a scary face and then being scared by it. 

He has since expanded upon the analysis: Read the whole thing...