{"id":358005,"date":"2026-03-21T15:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358005\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:49:16","slug":"adrian-weckler-what-ai-hallucinations-are-and-how-they-can-fool-us-with-made-up-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358005\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: What AI \u2018hallucinations\u2019 are and how they can fool us with made-up answers"},"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\">Former Mediahuis Ireland boss Peter Vandermeersch fell victim to AI hallucinations despite his years of experience in journalism\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peter Vandermeersch in Dublin. Photo: David Conachy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/117372508.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)\">Peter Vandermeersch in Dublin. Photo: David Conachy<\/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)\">This week, one of Ireland\u2019s most senior media figures was suspended for using artificial intelligence (AI) that made up quotes that were then used in articles and newsletter posts.<\/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)\">In his own written account of what happened, former Mediahuis Ireland boss Peter Vandermeersch said that tools such as ChatGPT lulled him with \u201cirresistible\u201d quotes to support the think pieces he was researching for his Press And Democracy blog, which included, ironically, opinion columns on the threat that AI poses to truth and journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Mediahuis Ireland boss Peter Vandermeersch fell victim to AI hallucinations despite his years of experience in journalism&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8819,2334,72,2670,61,60],"class_list":["post-358005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-business","tag-chatgpt","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358005","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=358005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}