Dunno if NNN wants to discuss this, but I already tweeted today about how non existent customer service is now at most major companies… And then I saw this:
clt has been reading more and more about AI creeping into every aspect of life—sports included—and has some thoughts. While AI might be good for scheduling games or tracking stats, let’s not pretend it’s the future of sports. clt says: not so fast, Skynet.
Here’s what clt sees as the major issues:
AI doesn’t know heart.
You can feed it all the stats from Halton Arena, but it still wouldn’t understand what it meant when Charlotte knocked off a ranked team. clt remembers. AI doesn’t.
Jobs at risk.
From sportswriters covering the Niners to folks working in marketing or ticketing—AI threatens real jobs held by real Niner Nation people. clt supports people, not bots.
Bias in, bias out.
AI is only as good as its data, and clt knows Charlotte has been underrepresented for years. Don’t expect the algorithms to give us a fair shake when they’re trained on national media bias.
Fans don’t cheer for robots.
Would you trust a robot to call a game-winning play at Richardson Stadium? clt wouldn’t. Give clt a human coach with real instinct and experience over a glorified spreadsheet.
Bottom line: clt is pro-progress, but not at the cost of what makes sports great—passion, people, and pride. Let AI stick to writing traffic reports. Leave 49er sports to the humans who live and breathe it.
I work in AI/ML from an end use data science perspective. Predictions are that in as little as 5 years we will have 50% fewer entry college level jobs because of AI. Computer science majors are gonna get hit hard because it will code better and faster than them.
We are just at the beginning unfortunately. Right now humans are training these models. Once it can train itself, the rate of change will get many times faster. Buckle up.
Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way — Malik El Tamir is one of the most underrated players to ever put on a Charlotte 49ers uniform. And CLT isn’t here to debate it — just here to remind the board.
Let’s look at the facts.
Malik wasn’t flashy. He didn’t seek headlines. He just showed up, locked in, and got it done. Game after game. Year after year. Whether it was on the hardwood or in the locker room, he was the steady hand that held the program together during some wild stretches. He was the guy that did the dirty work — the intangibles that don’t show up in the box score but win you ballgames.
He led by example. Never took a play off. Played through injuries when others would’ve shut it down. And when we needed a stop or a bucket in crunch time, who was there? Malik. Always Malik.
You don’t build a foundation without guys like him. His leadership was instrumental in turning the culture around during his era. Ask anyone inside the program — they’ll tell you Malik set the tone.
And yet, somehow, he’s not in the Hall?
CLT’s not saying he had the flashiest numbers. He’s saying he had the heart, the grit, and the legacy that deserves to be honored. If the 49ers Hall of Fame is about more than just stats — and it should be — then Malik El Tamir has earned his spot.
CLT was watching Knives Out for the 14th time (don’t judge — Lake Norman was rainy), and it hit him like a pick-6 at the goal line: Ana de Armas should be a GoldDuster. Full uniform, full routine, halftime of a packed Saturday at the Rich.
Before you call CLT crazy (again), hear him out.
She’s got the presence. She’s got the moves (check the tape — she’s got rhythm). And more importantly, she brings that star power that would immediately elevate the 49ers game day experience into something Hollywood dreams about. Imagine the crowd reaction when Ana takes the field with the squad. Cameras flashing, Norm losing his mind, ESPN2 mysteriously showing up on campus.
CLT’s not saying she’d commit full-time — she’s busy, obviously. But honorary GoldDuster? Guest performance? One-time halftime appearance during Homecoming? Let’s make this happen.
We’ve had cool moments before — this would be legendary. Forget storming the field — we’d be storming pop culture.
Plus, tell CLT this isn’t a recruiting weapon:
“Come to Charlotte — we’ve got Ana de Armas dancing at halftime.”
Brand-building. Vibes. Prestige. CLT sees the vision.
This pisses me off so badly. I sincerely hope there is a grassroots movement to pass laws to ban this practice before it catches on.
Forget the name, this is pricing the customer not the product. While we allow that in cases like senior citizens or kids or veterans, we do not use AI to do it, and we don’t use it to mark prices UP to a maximum AI determined Pain Point, which is EXACTLY what this is about - Trying to use data mined from you without your permission to determine what the most you will pay for something is, so the corporations can extract the most profit from each person individually. That TV or that burger won’t have a set price, instead YOU will be priced. How much does our AI think we can wring from you? How about medicine? How desperate are you? It’s coming.
It’s gross. Minority Report predicted crap like this. We can’t let it happen.
BTW, I’m gonna buy a North Korean VPN so every AI thinks I’m dirt poor.
Seems like this would create an entire secondary market of a company buying something at the lowest price thru VPN and sets ups similar then reselling at a set price.
The problem with relying on the market to correct this is that it requires a lot of potential sellers or providers in the market and we’re not in that situation right now. Just having all the biggest companies go along with this without any formal agreement would pretty much set the practice in stone.
