{"id":423394,"date":"2026-02-13T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423394\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:08:09","slug":"using-ai-for-love-letters-seen-as-lazy-kent-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423394\/","title":{"rendered":"Using AI for love letters seen as lazy, Kent study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tunbridge Wells resident Jacqueline McKenzie said while she used AI for some tasks, she would not use it for something personal, adding: &#8220;Never in a million years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liam Goodhew, from Bexley, Greater London, said he would not write a love letter to his partner, Paige, using AI as it was not from the heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She&#8217;s worth more than that,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_kent\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Kent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And Tunbridge Wells local Reza Jafary added: &#8220;A Valentine&#8217;s Day message should come from the heart, not a computer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The study is part of the university&#8217;s Trust in Moral Machines project, with support from the University of Exeter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Researcher Dr Scott Claessens said: &#8220;People don&#8217;t just judge what you produce, they judge how you produce it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Jim Everett, from the University of Kent, added: &#8220;If you use AI for these kind of social tasks that bind us together, you risk being judged not only because you didn&#8217;t put effort in, but because it makes people think you care less about the task and what it represents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that AI was &#8220;no substitute for investing effort into our interpersonal relationships&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tunbridge Wells resident Jacqueline McKenzie said while she used AI for some tasks, she would not use it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-423394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}