ChatGPT Teaches Messi Chess—On a Board It Set Up Wrong, With an Opening That Loses in Four Moves
“The digital board on screen in the ad has each side’s king and queen swapped”
What happened
In a ChatGPT ad Lionel Messi posted on Instagram, the chatbot teaches him chess on a board with each side's king and queen in the wrong places. The opening it recommends from that setup can be checkmated in four moves; on a correctly set board, the same moves do not lose that way.