BAD NEWS CELTIC FANS, APPARENTLY AI CAN SOLVE ALL RANGERS’ PROBLEMS
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- Apr 2
- 3 min read
This next post today is another case of “wait a minute, is it still April 1st? is this a wind-up?”
The answers are no and no respectively, and now I fear Scottish Sports Journalism may finally be beyond saving.
Apparently, the Scottish mainstream sports media are now literally asking AI to do their job for them.
Shoutout to ACSOM’s own Kevin Graham for bringing this particular bit of literary lunacy to my attention.
Celtic drew mockery from several corners last week for posting an AI generated “anime” style image of Paulo Bernardo on their social media channels to publicize his up-coming return to first time action.
However, the Scotsman went one step further.
If You Thought Celtic were Pushing it with AI last week, The Scotsman Has Just Gone off the Deep End
Once a respectable newspaper (yes, I’m old enough to remember a time when such things still existed), The Scotsman trawled a new low today. They asked Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok to identify players that Rangers should sign this summer.
Now, such an exercise is something I’m sure many of us have done with the various AI apps we have on our phones. It’s a fun way to kill 5 minutes. It is not and should never be the basis for an actual story in a national newspaper that is supposed to be taken seriously.
The Scotsman however, decided that the nonsense Grok spat out in response was newsworthy. The BBC then gave this act of idiocy further traction when they shared it as part of their daily digest of sports stories from the Scottish press. Again, this is an article we, as readers, and consumers are supposed to take seriously.
All I can I say is, I’m glad I’ve never paid for a TV license, or a subscription to The Scotsman for that matter.
Incidentally, the players Grok identified as potential summer signings for Rangers were. Boubacar Kouyate, a center back who plays for Montpellier in France, Liverpool full-back Owen Beck, Leeds United striker Joe Gelhardt, and Ipswich Town’s Ali-Al Hamadi.
Oh, and they should also sign The Waterboy himself Vaclav Cerny on a permanent deal.
Unless Grok is going to ask his boss Elon to give the Rangers Board a crisis loan, I don’t see any of these moves being remotely realistic.
Also, to reiterate what I said earlier today, even if this fabled Takeover involving the San Francsico 49ers does go through, the first priority of any new owner at Ibrox will be to get the business back to a break even point.
That’s going to mean no major investment without significant outgoings.
Perhaps Grok was trying to mimic human behavior and thought mocking Rangers was the way to go, since you, I and so many others derive so much pleasure from doing so on a daily basis.
As for The Scotsman, well, I think we can safely file them alongside The Daily Record, The S*n, et al in the bin.
I was going to close out the article today with an AI image of Keith Jackson, but unfortunately I'm unable to do so. Apparently, even an AI-generated fake image of a horse's a*se might still be enough to get the site demonetized!
