We tried to ask ChatGPT some questions about football, which confirmed that it cannot predict the near future, demonstrating very little creativity, but above all, it specified that it contains the statistical data up to 2022 in its memory and trying to ask who won the World Cup in Qatar, he replied that his "training" ended in January 2022.
ChatGPT basically doesn't know a lot about football, theoretically ChatGPT knows very little, paraphrasing the dedicated article that appeared on Wired which actually states the impossibility of this software to hold concrete (and too often sensible) discussions on Serie A and the Champions League.
Two years of statistics are a lot and a lot of things happen, let's find out what kind of answers ChatGPT offers and what the system's bugs are when it comes to making a concrete and up-to-date, but above all sensible, football speech.
ChatGPT who are the best Serie A footballers ever? Maradona and Del Piero
The software starts off well by stating that this type of evaluation is subjective and among the universally recognized strongest footballers of all time it puts Maradona in first place and Alessandro Del Piero in second place, satisfying both Neapolitans and Juventus players, but fueling discussions between fans in a war competitive to the last goal that has always lasted.
Also analyzing the last two years of Italian football, Lautaro Martinez would certainly have appeared in the top 10, because he wrote important pages in Serie A predictions and even in the statistics of the World Cup Roll of Honor.
To give an example, this year Lautaro broke several statistical records in the first championship matches and then scored 12 goals in the first 11 matches, which is why he is favored in the scorers' schedule among the odds updated to the last championship.
Between Baresi, Maldini, Baggio, Rivera, Mancini, Totti and Van Basten, all included in this order in the top 10, at the end of the short article the software reiterates once again (classic AI repetition) the complete subjectivity of the answers, but he virtually never offers logical reasoning to explain his selection.
As the great football experts in the worst bars of small provincial towns would say: football is something else.
Statistical analysis and human ingenuity always win in sport
Of course, technology has certainly improved our way of life but we must always contextualise well, especially when it comes to giving or writing a sensible speech.
It is preferable to consult statistics sites such as ChatGPT Transfermarkt, which present constantly updated statistics to inform yourself, make predictions, bet and, above all, to write an article (or a post on social media) that makes complete sense and is not an omelette of words mixed there at random without either art or part: words exclusively without football culture.
Statistical analyzes with data in hand and human ingenuity in creating neologisms, analyzing the performances of teams and players, ultimately always win, and on this ChatGPT still has a lot to study, but above all it must continue to "train" doing well beyond 2022.