Google display wrong flags for world cup 2026

(swiss-cow.com)

12 points | by jimseinta 2 hours ago ago

10 comments

  • bryanrasmussen an hour ago

    Noticeably absent from the possible errors that have led to this - it was generated by AI and the AI hallucinated wrong flags.

    In fact if this was the cause it totally highlights the benefit of not using AI, because of course the AI hallucinated and the only way to fix it is to either keep trying to use AI to do it, or do it by hand, or using one of the methodologies already mentioned which if those were the cause of the error would be an easily findable and fixable bug.

    • frollogaston an hour ago

      I doubt the results are AI-generated

      • bryanrasmussen 22 minutes ago

        why?

        >In the expanded match list, several countries are shown with incorrect flags. The errors are not subtle — they are completely different flags from entirely different countries.

        Why can this not be an AI mistake as opposed to one of the other mistakes?

    • apt-apt-apt-apt an hour ago

      This is like saying scissors can poke you, so don't use scissors.

      • vitally3643 an hour ago

        It's more like saying that electric scissors (look it up) can randomly stab blades out of the handle at you and sometimes it's easier and faster to use regular scissors and avoid dealing with random stabbing.

      • abenga an hour ago

        No it's like saying scissors poke so don't use them to hold up an inflated balloon.

  • malshe an hour ago

    I couldn't reproduce this issue so maybe they have fixed it.

    On a related note, could you include screenshots in the post?

    • frollogaston an hour ago

      Even if the bug is still there, this kind of thing is so A/B tested or dependent on other variables that nothing is going to be reproducible on our end

  • wffurr an hour ago

    Does not reproduce for me.

  • toxik 44 minutes ago

    lol "why it matters" - utter AI slop.