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Yesterday there was a weird play in the Thursday Night Football game where the Bears' quarterback handed the ball to an offensive lineman, who ran it in for a touchdown. The referees threw a flag and called the play back because it was an "illegal handoff", which I had never seen before.
I was texting my brother during the game and we both commented on how weird it was. My brother googled it and read the AI summary, which said the play was legal - citing a reddit thread from several years ago. He was like "Google says the play was legal - the refs got it wrong!"
I had to go to the NFL rulebook and dig through a bunch of sections before confirming that the refs were correct and you can't do that.
AI is absolute dogshit for anything that requires a bit of nuance. But it is really fast at serving up that dogshit, so a lot of lazy people would rather just accept a quick wrong answer than a slow correct one.
It's not just wrong. It's plausibly wrong, which is worse. It's the difference between giving someone a recipe for cookies where you fuck up the ratio of flour and sugar vs giving someone a recipe for cooking where you've jokingly put "50 pounds of gunpowder" in there as an ingredient. People know the obvious wrong thing is wrong. But they'll bake the fucked up ratio cookies and then just not know what went wrong.