{"id":62980,"date":"2025-09-14T05:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/62980\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T05:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:42:49","slug":"ruth-medjber-im-all-for-ai-in-moderation-just-keep-your-cynical-hat-on-and-maybe-put-the-chatbot-down-and-go-to-the-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/62980\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Medjber: I\u2019m all for AI in moderation, just keep your cynical hat on \u2013 and maybe put the chatbot down and go to the pub"},"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\">AI has the potential to turn us into a bunch of thoughtless idiots, who are conned out of our money, our own opinions and even our love lives\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A recent survey found that in the last year, 13pc of men and 7pc of women in Ireland have conducted a romantic relationship with an AI chatbot. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/d441bd8a-f6d5-456c-a1c0-d01973a2eeb2.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)\">A recent survey found that in the last year, 13pc of men and 7pc of women in Ireland have conducted a romantic relationship with an AI chatbot. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">AI in the professional world has been a game-changer for a lot of us. I won\u2019t deny I\u2019ve tried it in my photography practice while editing, asking it to remove a client\u2019s pimple or clean up the backdrop. I\u2019ve even run my CV through it to see how AI may give it a bit of a polish. Thankfully, I\u2019ve been underwhelmed.<\/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)\">Mostly I find AI to be incorrect too often when using it as a search engine. The only way I can detect that it\u2019s incorrect is either because I already know the right answer or my default levels of cynicism are in overdrive. But what if I was a little more trusting or gullible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI has the potential to turn us into a bunch of thoughtless idiots, who are conned out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,3498,290,14442,976,18,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-62980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-brad-pitt","13":"tag-ed-sheeran","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62980","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=62980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}