Soccer Coach Used ChatGPT for Match Tactics – And It Helped Her Win

Everyone depends on AI these days, including soccer coaches. One of them has just admitted to asking ChatGPT for tactical advice, which actually worked.

• Is this smart innovation or a dangerous shortcut that undermines expertise?
• If AI can influence sports results, there should be a line drawn when it comes to its’ advice.
• Was this a fluke that worked once, or a sign that AI will soon become a standard tool in professional sports strategy?

Seattle Reign head coach Laura Harvey revealed on a podcast that she used ChatGPT to help decide her team’s match tactics, and the AI-generated advice played a role in the club’s recent success. The unusual strategy is now raising eyebrows across the soccer world.

AI Tactics That Surprisingly Worked

Harvey said she asked ChatGPT for tactical advice, and it told her to try a back five formation which she did.

As she implemented the advice from the chatbot, the team has been quite successful so far, currently occupying the fourth position in the NSWL.

She narrated her experience:

“One day in the off-season, I was writing things into ChatGPT like, ‘What is Seattle Reign’s identity?’ And it would spurt it out. And I was like ‘I don’t know if that’s true or not.’”

She added that she asked ChatGPT for the best formation to beat NSWL teams, and ChatGPT gave her details of every team in the league and the formation to use for each one. 

She implemented everything the chatbot suggested exactly.

Harvey probably intends to replicate the advice for upcoming matches in November hoping to secure victory based on the advice and guidance of AI.

The Big Risk of Relying on AI Advice

While the advice has mostly worked in favor of Harvey and her team, one cannot help but admit that it was a huge risk she took relying on ChatGPT to make critical tournament decisions.

This is because although ChatGPT can be useful in some aspects of human life, it is definitely not in all.

Just recently, the chatbot advised a woman who had been married for 15 years to end her marriage which she did. 

ChatGPT has also been responsible for the suicide of a teenager, and so its advice must be take with a pinch of salt.

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