{"id":441295,"date":"2026-05-10T05:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/441295\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T05:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:22:10","slug":"surely-its-better-for-them-to-have-a-relationship-with-the-machine-than-with-nobody-why-more-and-more-people-are-falling-for-ai-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/441295\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Surely it\u2019s better for them to have a relationship with the machine than with nobody\u2019 \u2013 why more and more people are falling for AI chatbots"},"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\">Almost one in 10 Irish adults have formed a relationship with a bot. What is the appeal \u2013 and who is accountable if robots become sentient?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eugenia Kuyda, CEO of Replika. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5ada6ee1-1428-42a0-ba54-d7826d13d7ae.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)\">Eugenia Kuyda, CEO of Replika. 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)\">Last year, 32-year-old Japanese woman Yurina Noguchi married her AI-generated boyfriend, Lune Klaus Verdure. Lune was a version of a computer-game character she\u2019d created using ChatGPT. At the ceremony, his picture appeared on the screen of her phone.<\/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)\">Since AI is voiceless, the wedding planner read his vows, which included the line, \u201cHow did someone like me, living inside of a screen, come to know what it means to love so deeply? For one reason only: you taught me love, Yurina.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost one in 10 Irish adults have formed a relationship with a bot. What is the appeal \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2334,2670,61,60,56007,80],"class_list":["post-441295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liadan-hynes","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441295","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=441295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}