Caitríona Redmond: Why AI means we need to pay social media extra scrutiny

Emotive AI crafted pieces on social media are designed to draw you in, but should be taken with a pinch of salt.

We all like to think that we wouldn’t click on a post or comment on something that may be dodgy but consider images of missing people which can be very emotive and spread like wildfire. 

“I'm literally shaking as I type this”. So starts one of the more viral AI-crafted pieces on Facebook in the past week. It draws the reader in with emotion and entices us to read more.

As I write this week’s column, there are multiple variants of this post which accompanies several images of an intricately carved wooden cradle with a canopy.