Jaguars WR Brian Thomas Jr., said beating KC was ‘a crazy, great experience’
The Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Kansas City Chiefs 31-28 on an improbable set of circumstances that wide receiver Brian Thomas Jr., said were “crazy, great.”
- The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, incorrectly reported the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars.
- X’s AI platform, Grok, generated a faulty summary stating the Chiefs won 28-24, when the Jaguars actually won 31-28.
- The AI-generated summary also contained other factual errors, such as the Chiefs’ season record.
In front of millions of viewers around the nation and beyond, the Jacksonville Jaguars achieved a signature victory for Trevor Lawrence and head coach Liam Coen by stunning the Kansas City Chiefs 31-28 on Monday Night Football.
Didn’t they?
Well, not in the eyes of Twitter/X and its artificial intelligence platform Grok, which not only wrongly announced the Chiefs as the winners but even placed the faulty result in the Trending Topics section.
The official summary from X produced multiple errors, under the heading “Chiefs Edge Jaguars 28-24 in Thriller with Travis Hunter’s Highlights and Officiating Controversy.”
“The Kansas City Chiefs rallied from behind to defeat the Jacksonville Jaguars 28-24 on Monday Night Football, maintaining their undefeated 5-0 record,” the summary began.
Incidentally, the Chiefs were not undefeated even before the game, and their loss in Jacksonville dropped them to 2-3.
The false AI-generated result is the latest of several blunders by Twitter/X within the past week.
Among others, the social network announced on Oct. 9 that the San Francisco 49ers had defeated the Los Angeles Rams 28-24 on two Christian McCaffrey touchdowns, even though the game was still in progress and tied 20-20 at the time. San Francisco actually went on to win 26-23.
In another false trending topic last week, Twitter/X said that the New York Mets eliminated the Milwaukee Brewers 3-2 in Game 1 of the Major League Baseball Wild Card Series, advancing to play the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Division Series.
In reality, the Mets did not even qualify for the playoffs, the Brewers are still active in the postseason and MLB wild-card games are not decided on a single-elimination basis.