{"id":1020894,"date":"2026-07-14T11:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020894"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:58:00","slug":"why-we-choose-to-confess-to-ai-rather-than-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/why-we-choose-to-confess-to-ai-rather-than-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we choose to confess to AI rather than humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Every civilisation has come to believe in confessions. That is why people confess to priests; fears are acknowledged to Gods; ever since psychology started to evolve, people have been paying money to pour their hearts out to therapists; and when the internet happened, people started confessing to strangers to chat rooms.<\/p>\n<p>The kinds of listeners have morphed. But the urge to confess hasn\u2019t changed. This may explain right away why millions of people are confessing their deepest fears and darkest secrets to artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Every civilisation has come to believe in confessions. That is why people confess to priests; fears are acknowledged to Gods; ever since psychology started to evolve, people have been paying money to pour their hearts out to therapists; and when the internet happened, people started confessing to strangers to chat rooms. The kinds of listeners have morphed. But the urge to confess hasn\u2019t changed. This may explain right away why millions of people are confessing their deepest fears and darkest secrets to artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020895,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020894\/revisions\/1020895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}