A coach in America’s top women’s league has admitted to using ChatGPT to determine her team’s tactics.

Laura Harvey, the head coach at National Women’s Soccer League club Seattle Reign, said she asked the AI chatbot questions about strategy and tactics, then implemented what it advised.

“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,” Harvey told the Soccerish podcast.

“And I was like, ‘I don’t know if that’s true or not.’

“And then I put in, ‘What formation should you play to beat NWSL teams?’ and it spurted out every team in the league and what formation you should play. And for two teams, it went, ‘You should play a back five.’ So I did. No joke, that’s why I did it.”

Seattle Reign played with a back

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