{"id":457830,"date":"2026-05-20T05:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457830\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T05:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:02:33","slug":"why-asking-ai-to-read-your-palm-puts-your-apps-at-risk-of-being-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457830\/","title":{"rendered":"Why asking AI to read your palm puts your apps at risk of being hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using AI to read your palm could put a number of apps you use at risk of being hacked, a technology journalist has warned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Ciara O\u2019Brien of the Irish Times decided she wanted to see how well ChatGPT could read palms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, she soon became concerned about what the site asked her for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt needs a detailed picture,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstalk.com\/shows\/moncrieff-234861\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moncrieff<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it needs something that has good light that shows your whole hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat would basically mean that I have handed over a very detailed photograph of the thing I use to authenticate my phone on a regular basis on my banking apps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, you&#8217;ll have to excuse me if I&#8217;m slightly cynical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Ms O\u2019Brien used a stock image of someone else\u2019s hand and asked ChatGPT if it could predict the palm owner\u2019s future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes all the information that it can find online,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first kind of attempt was very generic &#8211; so you have to be specific.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are going to do this, you have to tell it to avoid kind of generalisations because otherwise you&#8217;re going to get, \u2018Oh, you know, you will find love and, \u2018You will have a long and healthy life\u2019 &#8211; all very bland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you ask it to be more specific, it will basically tell you stuff about the headline , lifeline, and visible gaps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPalmists would usually read this as somebody who asserted their independence early rather than relying heavily on family approval.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite this amount of detail, Ms O\u2019Brien noted that many will feel AI can never replace a human being who can look at a person and sense something about their soul.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPalmistry is something that is an art and that people spend lots of time and effort perfecting,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a human element to that, that AI can&#8217;t replicate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know we keep talking about artificial intelligence taking over certain tasks &#8211; it&#8217;s still not human and it&#8217;s not going to be there for another little while yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Main image: Palm reading. Picture by: Alamy.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Using AI to read your palm could put a number of apps you use at risk of being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-457830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457830","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=457830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}