What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?

adam 52 points 30 comments September 25, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (9 comments)

ungreased0675

Fascinating project. How are the probabilities being measured? I’m skeptical of AI analysis because my past experience is that it appears to be analyzing, but behind the curtain there’s not even a fraction of the same rigor a human analyst would have done. In other words It’s very shallow but looks deep.

tocs3

The kicker has a drug habit. The quarterback is making a suspicious number of overseas call. The coach is having an extramarital affair that could be exploited by a blackmailer.

b0rbb

Ah dang, this looks like it got hugged to death.

blitzar

He can't hit a curve ball... And an ugly girlfriend. Ugly girlfriend means no confidence.

tejtm

Suspect you suck even more joy out of it the further removed from original local friends and neighbors getting together it started out as.

williadc

The Culinary Institute of America doesn't have a football team that I can find, but I would still like to analyze it.

MisterMunchkin

I find it really cringey when people describe a whole intelligent system… and it’s just asking copilot to generate slop. It didn’t “calculate probabilities”, it just hallucinated slop. The same kind of slop almost started WW3 when a similar “intelligence analyst” system told the US navy to attack China because they were smuggling nukes into Iran. They weren’t, it was all slop. But their system was full of “calculated probabilities” too!

WillMorr

I really enjoyed reading this, got invested in learning about this idea, and then realized they they never actually show any evidence that this works? Like the text-based model they are experimenting with did a kinda counterintuitive thing that they thought was worth a section, and then they don't say whether or not it was right? The idea of aggregating chatbot context into a probabilities is super interesting and I really want to know if it's bullshit or not

mitxela

This is an AI ad for an AI slop product

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