{"id":6817,"date":"2025-08-18T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/6817\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:00:14","slug":"ciara-kelly-were-the-loneliest-people-in-europe-so-lonely-in-fact-that-more-of-us-are-turning-to-relationships-with-ai-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/6817\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciara Kelly: We\u2019re the loneliest people in Europe \u2013 so lonely, in fact, that more of us are turning to \u2018relationships\u2019 with AI chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;Getting hurt is something that many of us \u2013 especially people with a history of being hurt \u2013 will do anything to avoid. Yet we still want love.&quot; Image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MGdate1chatgpt.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)\">&#8220;Getting hurt is something that many of us \u2013 especially people with a history of being hurt \u2013 will do anything to avoid. Yet we still want love.&#8221; Image: 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)\">As many as 370,000 Irish people could be involved in romantic relationships with an AI chatbot \u2013 and up to 500,000 could be open to one! When I first heard those numbers, extrapolated from a survey carried out by Censuswide for Pure Telecom, last week, I thought it said there were 370 people involved romantically with a chatbot and I still thought it was incredible.<\/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)\">Thirteen per cent of men and 7pc of women surveyed are or have been in a relationship with an AI-generated persona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Getting hurt is something that many of us \u2013 especially people with a history of being hurt \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,6989,18,19,17,4746,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-6817","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-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ciara-kelly","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-life-magazine","16":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817","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=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}