Friday, July 17, 2026

Today in The Athletic

"In a crackdown that has rankled some front offices across the league, Major League Baseball has effectively outlawed the growing practice of using league-provided dugout iPads to access generative artificial intelligence, which some teams had increasingly leaned upon to help shape in-game strategy."



"Oh, geez, are we ever fucked."

8 comments:

13bit said...

FUCK AI AND FUCK THE PEOPLE KILLING BASEBALL.

Piiax said...

Amen, brother.

AboveAverage said...

I’ve never seen Boone holding and looking at an iPad in the dugout. He’s appears over matched with just unwrapping a piece oF double bubble or figuring out which direction to spit a seed in

ranger_lp said...

⬆️ This…

HoraceClarke66 said...

And amen again. And anybody who needs AI to tell him the best strategy in baseball should be banned from the game...for stupidity.

Copelius said...

I was gonna say, this probably isn't a problem with Boone. No way Ai would make decisions as stupid as he has.

The Hammer of God said...

AI has its uses, but it's still pretty stupid. I was trying to learn Def Leppard's "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" the other day. Most of this song is a common time 4/4 signature. But I could've sworn there is an extra beat thrown in just before the chorus, which is sung three times. So there are a total of three measures in this song that are 5/4 bars, not 4/4 time. I asked AI if I'm right, and AI keeps insisting that this fucking song is 4/4 time throughout, that there are no extra beats anywhere, that what I'm hearing are idiosyncrasies in the rhythm that make it sound like there are extra beats, that I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. So re-listened to this song about a hundred fifty fucking times over, and I can confirm, swear to God, that the extra beat 5/4 bar happens three different times in this song. Then I went back again to AI and asked the question in a different way, and now AI agrees that there is a 5/4 bar in there. Fuck AI, fuck stupidity, fuck technology, to hell with this bull shit.

The Hammer of God said...

Amen, Amen, Amen!!!