Ten minutes before game time I Googled "texas football tonight" to get the broadcast information. Here's the first thing Google sent back: AI Overview There is no major college football game for the Texas Longhorns tonight, Friday, November 28, 2025 The Texas Longhorns last played on November 22, and the next major game is not scheduled for tonight. College: The Texas Longhorns' last game was on November 22, a victory against Mississippi State, and there is no game scheduled for tonight, Texas Football. NFL: The only professional football game scheduled for tonight is the Eagles vs. Bears game, not played in Texas, IndyStar. Houston Texans: The Houston Texans play a game against the Colts on Sunday, November 30, at 1 p.m. ET. Not only did the bot completely blow the main question with probably thousands of legitimate references on the internet, it tells us that an NFL game that is already over, not played in Texas, is being played tonight. Why are so many people so avidly all in on this crap? Can't wait till all the cars, trucks, trains and planes rely on this BS as their main source of navigation.
AI spits things out with or without you directly plugging in a question to AI. That being said, I flat out refuse to directly do so. It's a thing I have, and I'll give you a shining example of what I mean without getting into the rape of consent angle of it. Over the last year, I've actually been taking my writing seriously. There is no fcking way that I would EVER utilize AI as a writer. It's appalling how many people think that's legitimate authorship. I am so sick of hearing, "I'm writing a book," when nobody's writing a fcking book. "Well, it's my idea." Good luck with that. In similar fashion, I still feel the exact same way about digital photography that I always have. You are 9/10 not as good as your equipment. I have several canisters of 35 mm film - FILM - in my fridge as well speak. There's something about standing there thinking about depth of field, F-stop, manually focusing a lens, and a dark room that can't be beat. I don't care what professional digital photographers say to me about the artist still being behind the camera, nobody will ever be able to change my mind. AI shouldn't be anywhere the fck near human creativity when it comes to the human ear, the human eye, or the written word. It's soulless cheating by the "artists" who use it for that purpose. Anyway, back to sports.
It's not going to stop. I've been kind of tracking the progress of AI as it pertains to generating "art" and it's currently acting like an advanced search that references all of the artwork it has absorbed into it's library, then spits out an aggregated result based on the request. It gets a lot more refined than that in the more expensive models but that's basically what it is, and the more I think about it, it's really not all that different from how we learn and create. I think the best thing we can hope for at this point is actual artists using it to create, instead of Internet hustlebros making a quick buck from it. The world is changing very quickly right now.
I get it, especially the second paragraph, which I pretty much said, just in a different way. Give me someone who paints with the naked eye with a primitive tool any day of the week. I read Isaac Asimov's 'The Last Question' when I was 13. That was a really long time ago. It freaked me out then, it freaks me out today, and it has never been more prescient. That being said, it still had - and was - human intelligence. It wasn't a rogue machine. You can't stop "progress" or technological advancement. What you can do is not actively participate as much as humanly possible. The operative word being humanly.
Contrary to what may be believed I’m not deliberately trying to be an asshole but even pre-AI search engines wouldn’t have given you the information you wanted immediately with something as broad as “Texas Football tonight.” AI’s pretty cool if used as a tool and not a primary resource. If you work in a middle management-ish finance or programming position I’d start finding a new trade though. It’s going to suck up a lot of spreadsheet jobs.
You miss the point. Getting wrong information is worse than getting no information. Two years ago response time for something as simple as basic pregame information would have certainly been less than four hours, even if not the first listing.
I didn’t miss the point. Your search for “Texas football tonight” is wide open. There are a dozen relevant Texas football teams. AI is supremely flawed but this is a bit of user error.
AI is now being beta tested on a global scale. Pretty much all of it now comes with disclaimers everywhere stating that AI can provide incorrect responses... when the main reason anyone would want to use it is accuracy of response. It's the tech version of the big pharma commercials with the auctioneer reading the side effects at the end. Nothing being called AI right now should be in production (ok there's some but it requires you to pay hefty premiums to use), it's all half a product for the main cross section of people testing it. That includes anyone who does one of those Google searches with Gemini turned on. They really want you to give it a thumbs up or thumbs down every time you do to a Gemini search because can help teach their model for free.
You are 100% correct there are many Texas football teams; "tonight" is the key element. Traditional search engines will provide information on them according to algorithms that include interest level which it would have been providing all day long leading up to the game. It will not tell you that a team is not playing "tonight" when it is or has. It is then up to the user to filter among the responses which Google certainly supplied but only after prioritizing the erroneous AI derived "information".
Please don’t try to mansplain search engines to me. I worked in SEO marketing for a number of years. Your search terms were crap and you’re trying to blame it on AI. It makes no sense. It’s an internet search engine, not a magical device that can read your mind as to what you really want to know. Use it accordingly with that in mind.
Yes, I am blaming AI for the erroneous information provided when traditional search algorithms are capable of providing correct information. It has nothing to do with where you worked; the topic here is that AI is not ready for prime time, particularly in situations where a user is looking for accurate responses as they have been getting from the same search engines for decades. I am quite secure in claiming that algorithm based search would have responded correctly in the first few messages hours before the game began that Texas was playing at four o'clock, the opponent, the location and the broadcast information. That's more than enough to satisfy me, I can find the info I'm looking for in the third paragraph if need be; I have no idea why anyone would consider that "user error".
Just now on Google... Search term "New York football tonight" AI Overview There is no NFL game featuring a New York team tonight, November 30, 2025 , though the New York Giants played the New England Patriots on a previous Sunday, November 23rd, 2025. The next NFL games for the New York teams are scheduled for Sunday, December 7, 2025. Sunday, December 7, 2025: Both the New York Jets and the New York Giants have games scheduled, with kickoff times at 1:00 p.m. ET. No games tonight: There are no NFL games scheduled for today. Previous game: The New York Giants played the Detroit Lions on November 23, 2025.
Your search was trash and you got a trash answer. It has nothing to do with AI. “What channel is the Texas football game on tonight” would’ve yielded you an accurate result. You were too lazy to type a couple more words and decided to blame the free tool instead of realizing your search was dumb sorry.
How many football teams college or pro have “New York” in their name? Two. How many football teams college or pro have “Texas” in their name? UTSA, Texas, Texas A&M, TCU, Texas Tech, UTEP, Texas State, North Texas and I’m sure I’m missing more. Blame yourself because it didn’t read your mind, not the tool.
Don't be sorry, Just be honest. It's not about you defending AI at all is it? If you were interested in defending AI you'd be responding about why the recent response said this: " No games tonight: There are no NFL games scheduled for today. I guess that's there because I'm lazy?
Refer to my post above. Yes. You typed a lazy question and got a lazy answer. It’s not a magical sorcerer. Use the tool correctly next time.
Yeah, I guess I need remedial training in "How to Use a Search Engine" while it is acceptable for AI to say there are no NFL games today or tonight.
Two things can be true at the same time. AI can suck, but you can also suck at Google searching things.
Maybe I should switch to Duck Duck Go. Pretty sure they didn't tell anyone there were no NFL games today regardless of how incompetent you think the search was.
