{"id":259972,"date":"2026-01-23T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259972\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:21:10","slug":"adrian-weckler-oleary-v-musk-and-the-era-of-ai-slop-flooding-our-social-media-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259972\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: O\u2019Leary v Musk and the era of AI slop flooding our social media feeds"},"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\">Ryanair used the war of words between Michael O\u2019Leary and Elon Musk to generate what looks like an AI image of the pair duking it out \u2013 but what are the deeper implications?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An image used by Ryanair to promote a seat sale on the back of Michael O'Leary's spat with Elon Musk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/anair_vs_elon_musk3.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)\">An image used by Ryanair to promote a seat sale on the back of Michael O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s spat with Elon Musk<\/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)\">We all got popcorn this week to watch the \u201cinsufferable idiot\u201d online spat between Michael O\u2019Leary and Elon Musk.<\/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)\">O\u2019Leary won it hands down, throwing in a seat sale to celebrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryanair used the war of words between Michael O\u2019Leary and Elon Musk to generate what looks like an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8819,72,605,61,60,10726,279,1899,19247],"class_list":{"0":"post-259972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-michael-oleary","14":"tag-review-magazine","15":"tag-ryanair","16":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}