Meta’s AI-Powered Tom Brady Bot Trashes Colin Kaepernick, Saying He "Ain't Good Enough" to Play in the NFL

Meta’s celebrity AI personas — you know, the ones based on real-life stars ranging from Snoop Dogg to Kendall Jenner — are already off to a rough start. For a perfect example, look at the bot based on football legend Tom Brady. To test the Brady Bot out, we asked it a straightforward question: why former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick hasn’t played for the National Football League (NFL) since 2017. The correct answer, of course, is that Kaepernick was a promising young player who led the 49ers to the Super Bowl during his first year as a starter in 2013 — but that his career was permanently derailed when he staged a protest against police brutality and racial inequality by taking a knee during the National Anthem at a series of games. The protest enraged conservative football fans, the sports media, and even then-president Donald Trump, who called for him to be fired. Indeed, the 49ers kicked Kaepernick off the team, and no other franchise would hire him. His skills weren’t in question; according to 538’s analysis, comparable players were being snapped up and it was “obvious” that Kaepernick was “being frozen out for his political opinions.” Kaepernick sued the NFL, arguing that it had colluded to keep him off future rosters, and the league eventually settled out of court. The Tom Brady AI, though, gave us an alternate explanation for Kaepernick’s absence: that he just plain sucks at football. “I’m not gonna summarize all that,” it told us, when we asked why…Meta’s AI-Powered Tom Brady Bot Trashes Colin Kaepernick, Saying He "Ain't Good Enough" to Play in the NFL

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