A couple of weeks ago, I got one of those emails from the Ministerial Fellowship Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Association. The key paragraph read as follows: “The Ministerial Fellowship Committee voted at its December 2025 meeting to remove the Rev. Benjamin Meyers from fellowship with the Unitarian Universalist Association for violating the terms of ministerial probation, as related to acts of plagiarism.” When I was in the Bay Area, Ben served at the Berkeley Fellowship and the congregation in San Mateo.
This raises a question for me:
Does using generative AI to write a sermon count as plagiarism?
Technically, it’s not plagiarism. At the same time, it’s not your own work. It’s an interesting ethical question.