Is Ireland's fake tan use problematic?

thegame983

The absolute state of the Irish Times. What an embarrassment.

Yurt2

Whoopsiedaisydoodles. Irish Times got absolutely played for fools here.

Someone needs to have a serious word with whatever editor let this pass the smell test.

joseywhales

It's either an assassination attempt by a disgruntled employee or they are actually experimenting with AI. I mean I would find an AI more credible than most columnists, I mean we are not supposed to take their opinions as fact anyway, what difference if it's some AI? The writing will probably be better

Stephen_Maturin

Had been long concerned with the blatant decline of quality at the times - very ideologically tinted with the likes of Fintan O’Toole, Una Mullaly, Jennifer O’Connell and their finger wagging new-age Puritanism.

Ceased my subscription following Roisin Ingle’s horrible article gloating over child sex abuse. Feeling vindicated I made the right choice now.

DaSchmo

Well that's finally gone and done it - yesterday after seeing that tripe I finally unsubscribed, I'm not paying for this sort of rubbish. Turned out there was no unsubscribe button and I had to actually call them to cancel it. What was once a respectable "paper of record" has been on the slide for years, this really is rock bottom. So far. I'm done with them.

Yurt2

I myself have long been convinced that Una Mullaly is fact an early-prototype DARPA AI project let loose on Ireland.

"The ongoing cultural erasure of Dublin's northside continues with the loss of this vegan burrito and abortion art gallery to the unrelenting tide of duplex apartments"

sonar44

Woke ideology is a gift to write with AI. The arguments don't have to be sane, factual, consistent or in any way evenhanded. That leaves a generous swathe of computing power to imagine the perfect blue haired whale to accompany the piece.

Goldengirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120588468#Comment_120588468

Well that is what the aim of it was., to stir up division .

Its not wokism or far right we need to be worried about, its chat bots and AI taking over and telling us what to think and who knows who is really behind it..

What appeared to be just a silly article about a silly subject is looking much nore insidious now.

Most likely some incel who rants about Jennifer O'Connell and the so called feminist /woke agenda .. Looks like she is being well set up alright.

magicbastarder

years ago p45.net got lots of fake articles into the Irish media, including one the Indo ran as front page news - and the lead article on the front page too.

Stephen_Maturin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120588707#Comment_120588707

Tbf doesn’t say a lot about her credibility that she published such a nonsense article (blatant clickbait beneath a “paper of repute”) and didn’t do a single bit of due diligence on the source

Embarrassing really that she saw fit to include that in their paper

tesla_newbie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120588542#Comment_120588542

o Connell is a woke idiot of the highest order, she was an ultra easy mark for duping here as she laps up this kind of garbage

HBC08

Oh dear......

This is hilarious!

Wibbs

The Times has been going downhill for quite a while. The Independent, a contradiction in the very title. Now the IT is using AI to get clicks? I wouldn't wrap my fish and chips in either of them.

Yes, because it looks bleedin' awful.

creedp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120586761#Comment_120586761

Should that be no person so as not to fall foul of gender equality legislation

silliussoddius

I expected more from the AI man.

mazdamiatamx5

This is hilarious.

chosen1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120586692#Comment_120586692

Speaking as one of the dickheads that thanked that post, I think you are insulting the intelligence of those women who choose to style themselves in this way.

If this woman exists in real life, she has made a definitive choice of how she wishes to appear and of course wants to identify herself to a similar tribe of like minded people. Others like myself will also see this stereotype she has chosen to fit with, and avoid any unnecessary interaction with them.

She is of course perfectly entitled to have this look, but unless she is a complete and utter idiot, she knows full well what she represents when goes out with this style.

Boggles

Lol.

Freaking out at a chat bot.

Too funny. 🤣

HBC08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120588901#Comment_120588901

Who's freaking out?

Most people are p1ssing their pants at this.

What was it your were saying about rage bait?

This is genuinely very funny!

Boggles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120588916#Comment_120588916

Something to do with Woke Communists.

sonar44

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120588901#Comment_120588901

You're trying too hard.

HBC08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120588923#Comment_120588923

Sounds daft,don't know anything about it.

Hey,why don't you do one of your little shrug shoulders emojis to show you dont care and your above all this nonsense.

Boggles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120588940#Comment_120588940

🤷‍♂️

buried

lol The AI rish Times

Akrasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120588678#Comment_120588678

You're right, given the target of these articles are the outrage seeking alt right types who descend on mass to be outraged at anything that reinforces their opinions about the left

In fact the more extreme the 'wokeness' in the article s the more outraged the alt right becomes and the more clicks they get

The AI is learning that the dumber and more provokative they get, the better metrics the content gets, which is interpreted as success so it's a death spiral of pandering to more and more extreme half baked wingnuts.

The algorithms have been doing it for years in ai curated social media feeds. The difference now is that the AI can produce it's own content as well as curate the feeds

Galwayguy35

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120588954#Comment_120588954

Says the lad bladdering on about the "alt right".

The right is living in your head rent free.

crusd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120586800#Comment_120586800

Not really. The article was just a complete misunderstanding of the ilunferlying cultural reasons some women choose to appear orange. The reason is that elements of Irish culture value the tanned white skin look but understand that many with the “Irish” skin tone do not react very well to sun., and not that the wish to emulate other ethnicities.

sonar44

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120588954#Comment_120588954

This is just embellishing what I said. There is no rhyme or reason to woke ideology, it's just warmed over classism with a large dollop of racism and bigotry thrown in.

bloopy

https://twitter.com/ecuadorian_adri/status/1657077563636740096

Looks like the IT may have been had.