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By Ben Watanabe
Contributing Sports Writer
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It's one thing to be bad. It's another thing to cheat and still be bad.
That's what the New York Mets apparently did as one of several MLB teams that exploited in-dugout iPads to use artificial intelligence to assist their in-game decisions, according to the New York Post. With Claude leading the way, the Mets reportedly prompted themselves to the bottom of the standings.
"The custom tab allowed teams to access other programs (than those allowed by MLB) and will no longer be accessible," the Post's Dan Martin wrote Friday.
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It's not clear when or for how long the Mets were taking advantage of the loophole, so it's unknown whether fired manager Carlos Mendoza or interim manager Andy Green -- or both -- was the one making robo-decisions.
What is clear is that something was clearly wrong with the Mets' AI-assisted strategy. Maybe they were putting in the wrong prompts. Maybe the AI's logic was faulty. Maybe the staff misapplied the AI's advice. Maybe the Mets' roster is simply so bad, no amount of generative analysis could save it.
Whichever way the process broke down, everything that's happened to the Mets this season has been less "Gemini" and more "Gemi-oh-God-why?"
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