Bad news if you are a Real Madrid fan. ChatGPT has chosen the best Spanish soccer player of all time, and he is from FC Barcelona. But the important thing here is that his reasoning makes a mistake that reveals one of the problems of blindly believing everything AI says.
I asked ChatGPT: «Reason who is the best Spanish footballer of all time.» ChatGPT has put together a list of candidates and has reasoned, with valid arguments, that The best Spanish footballer in history is Andrés Iniesta.
However, important errors have crept into their reasoning. ChatGPT assures that the only Spaniard who has won the Ballon d’Or is Luis Suárez. Something that is not true: Rodri Hernández lifted the trophy in 2024. It is an example of one of the most common failures of artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence lives in the past
ChatGPT is trained with data from the Internet, and since soccer is a highly debated topic, its reasoning for choosing the best Spanish footballer in historyit’s very obvious. Come on, he says what the majority thinks.
The list of the best Spanish footballers is the following: Xavi Hernández, Andrés Iniesta, Iker Casillas, Raúl González, Sergio Ramos, and Luis Suárez.
ChatGPT stays with Andrés Iniesta because «he was the most complete and decisive player in Spain’s golden generation and shone at both the club and national team level. His goal in the 2010 World Cup final and his innate talent make him an indelible icon of Spanish football.»
ChatGPT’s list is opinionated, like everything in football, but its reasoning is as valid as that of any fan. However, An important error sneaks into Luis Suárez’s filewhich is what interests us here:
«The only Spanish winner of the Ballon d’Or (1960). His talent led Barcelona and Inter Milan to important titles, and he is considered a pioneer of Spanish football.»
As I have mentioned, Luis Suárez is not the only Spanish footballer to win the Ballon d’Or, the title for the best player in the world. In 2024 Rodri Hernández won it.
This is an example of one of the handicaps of all AI: They are trained with data that is months, even years old. Specifically, the latest version of free ChatGPT, which is the one I have used, uses data until November 2023. Rodri received the Ballon d’Or on October 28, 2024, which is why ChatGPT does not know this information.
For ChatGPT the best Spanish footballer in history is Andrés Iniesta. However, his failure with the Ballon d’Or shows that the artificial intelligence does not collect news from recent months. So don’t use them to search or work with current-based data.
Get to know how we work in NoticiasVE.
Tags: Artificial intelligence, Viral, Curiosities, Sport, football