Google display wrong flags for world cup 2026

13 pointsposted 13 hours ago
by jimseinta

12 Comments

bryanrasmussen

12 hours 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

12 hours ago

I doubt the results are AI-generated

bryanrasmussen

12 hours 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

12 hours ago

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

vitally3643

12 hours 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

12 hours ago

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

malshe

12 hours 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

12 hours 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

tnuc

11 hours ago

I can't reproduce it.

Does the error still occur if you do a hard reload or use a different browser?

wffurr

12 hours ago

Does not reproduce for me.

adt

10 hours ago

You couldn't have included images? Or emojis?

toxik

12 hours ago

lol "why it matters" - utter AI slop.