{"id":438434,"date":"2026-05-08T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/438434\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:11:11","slug":"bill-linnane-ai-will-never-match-the-dazzling-sharpness-of-a-half-cut-teenagers-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/438434\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Linnane: AI will never match the dazzling sharpness of a half-cut teenager\u2019s insult"},"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\">Kids see ChatGPT as a saviour, but it still thinks I want rasher sandwiches just because I\u2019m Irish\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Teenagers are in thrall to generative AI, but they will discover it has its limitations. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b360dc18-97e5-44ea-b9d4-4ed2e43c54df.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)\">Teenagers are in thrall to generative AI, but they will discover it has its limitations. 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)\">I am pleased to report that media literacy among the teenage population of Ireland is in rude health. I discovered this through in-depth field research at the tail end of one of my son\u2019s house parties.<\/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)\">I was doing my usual trick of appearing amongst them at around 10.30pm, like a doughy demon summoned by the odour of spilled cider and sick, and was weaving my way through the crowds, trying to usher them off the property and onto a public road where they would either be collected by or run over by their parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kids see ChatGPT as a saviour, but it still thinks I want rasher sandwiches just because I\u2019m Irish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,17711,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-438434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bill-linnane","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438434","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=438434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}