AI KNOW BALL?
We asked 4 AI models to do March Madness. They picked the same team — then we made them think harder
We Asked 4 AI Models To Do March Madness. They Picked The Same Team — Then We Made Them Think Harder
Bracket season has arrived, and we can state confidently without even looking for evidence that there will be more AI-created entries than ever before.Gone are the days where the people who don’t follow college basketball are left to bothering the biggest bro in the office for his picks. Or, better yet, submit an outlandish bracket that miraculously nails the 14 seed that makes it to the Elite 8. Now everyone is just going to turn to their imaginary friends named Claude, and end up submitting the same brackets.Literally, the same brackets. The Daily Wire had the four leading AI models predict the 2026 NCAA March Madness Basketball Tournament. The first round of projections from all four models was exactly what you’d expect from robots trained on the internet’s safest instincts: Duke, Duke, Duke, and Duke.The Daily Wire fed the complete 68-team bracket to four of the top AI systems — OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity — and asked each to produce a full bracket prediction from the First Four through the national championship. Each model received the...
