{"id":21907,"date":"2026-02-09T12:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/i-asked-ai-to-name-my-wife-to-the-hopelessly-incorrect-people-it-cited-my-deepest-apologies-martin-rowson\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:37:16","slug":"i-asked-ai-to-name-my-wife-to-the-hopelessly-incorrect-people-it-cited-my-deepest-apologies-martin-rowson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/i-asked-ai-to-name-my-wife-to-the-hopelessly-incorrect-people-it-cited-my-deepest-apologies-martin-rowson\/","title":{"rendered":"I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authors, a newsreader, a lawyer and an esteemed colleague: they\u2019re all great \u2013 but I\u2019m not married to any of them. Can we really depend on this technology?<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Rowsons accidentally invented a new game that anyone can play at home. I have yet to come up with a world-beating name for it, so for now let\u2019s just call it \u201cHow bloody stupid is AI?\u201d The playing of the game will change from player to player, depending on their circumstances \u2013 but essentially the rules remain the same. Ask AI a simple question about yourself, and see just how wrong it gets it.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, all you need know is that while I, through the nature of my job, have a fairly large online presence, my partner (we married in 1987) has assiduously avoided having one at all. Which means that if you Google \u201cMartin Rowson wife\u201d in images, you may get a picture of me next to our then 14-year-old daughter or me with my friend and fellow cartoonist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/steven-appleby\">Steven Appleby<\/a>, who happens to be trans but has kept her given first name.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/feb\/09\/who-is-my-wife-martin-rowson-ai-technology\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a4b18af02490b64151d7bc048a3ce6ca518fd920\/0_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fc386358b2cadb5d7ef2daa6f4a5c175\" title=\"I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson\" \/>Authors, a newsreader, a lawyer and an esteemed colleague: they\u2019re all great \u2013 but I\u2019m not married to any of them. Can we really depend on this technology?<br \/>\nRecently, the Rowsons accidentally invented a new game that anyone can play at home. I have yet to come up with a world-beating name for it, so for now let\u2019s just call it \u201cHow bloody stupid is AI?\u201d The playing of the game will change from player to player, depending on their circumstances \u2013 but essentially the rules remain the same. Ask AI a simple question about yourself, and see just how wrong it gets it.<br \/>\nIn my case, all you need know is that while I, through the nature of my job, have a fairly large online presence, my partner (we married in 1987) has assiduously avoided having one at all. Which means that if you Google \u201cMartin Rowson wife\u201d in images, you may get a picture of me next to our then 14-year-old daughter or me with my friend and fellow cartoonist Steven Appleby, who happens to be trans but has kept her given first name. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors, a newsreader, a lawyer and an esteemed colleague: they\u2019re all great \u2013 but I\u2019m not married to any of them. Can we really depend on this technology? Recently, the Rowsons accidentally invented a new game that anyone can play at home. I have yet to come up with a world-beating name for it, so &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/i-asked-ai-to-name-my-wife-to-the-hopelessly-incorrect-people-it-cited-my-deepest-apologies-martin-rowson\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}