{"id":533896,"date":"2026-07-05T08:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533896\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T08:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:01:19","slug":"new-law-enables-consumers-to-speak-to-a-person-instead-of-ai-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533896\/","title":{"rendered":"New law enables consumers to speak to a person instead of AI chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-bold text-2xl text-pretty dark:text-light\">\n                They can ask for human intervention instead of relying on the bot when buying goods and services online.\n            <\/p>\n<p>A new law gives consumers the legal right to speak to a person instead of an AI Chatbot.<br \/>They can ask for human intervention instead of relying on the bot when buying goods and services online.<\/p>\n<p>Irish Independent Technology Editor, Adrian Weckler describes the problems with chatbots:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They can ask for human intervention instead of relying on the bot when buying goods and services online.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,6717,80],"class_list":["post-533896","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-law","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533896","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=533896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}