{"id":275891,"date":"2026-01-09T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/275891\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:22:11","slug":"love-machines-by-james-muldoon-how-some-of-our-key-relationships-in-life-are-being-corrupted-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/275891\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Machines by James Muldoon: how some of our key relationships in life are being corrupted by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nIn his harrowing new book, James Muldoon explores how some of our key relationships in life are being corrupted by artificial intelligence\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Virtual love: Men account for 90pc of the users of AI companions with whom they have a romantic connection\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3da8fbad-c687-4070-ac25-071dfa0b5deb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Virtual love: Men account for 90pc of the users of AI companions with whom they have a romantic connection<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The rose-tinted glasses afforded to us by the festive season were ripped off in an instant last week with the reports that Elon Musk\u2019s Grok AI was generating sexualised images for users requesting the chatbot to digitally remove clothes from photos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Grok, developed for Musk\u2019s X, has since apologised over the non-consensual images of women and girls and said that \u201cxAI has safeguards, but improvements are ongoing to block such requests entirely\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his harrowing new book, James Muldoon explores how some of our key relationships in life are being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,23203,289,290,18,19,17,2519,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-275891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-aoife-rooney","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-review-magazine","16":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115865121087883380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}