Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Grace French:
Personally, I think recommender systems need to be updated in some shape or form because they are not always accurate to what you actually like. I know a lot of people who have seen content online that they should not have, on the recommender systems. Recently, there was a video of Charlie Kirk being shot. That came up on a lot of my friends' recommender systems, even though they would not be watching videos in any way related to that.
Deputy Murphy mentioned the promotion of eating disorders and self-harm. I would not personally look at content like that at all but for every 20 videos, there is something about an eating disorder or self-harm. It is really toxic. It can really damage people's headspace when those things constantly come up due to recommender systems.
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