LLMMedium
AI mistakes referee’s bald head for football — hilarity ensued
- Occurred
- Oct 24, 2020
- Published
- Oct 30, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In a Scottish soccer match the AI-enabled ball-tracking camera used to livestream the game repeatedly tracked an official’s bald head as though it were the soccer ball.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club
Harmed parties
- livestream viewers
Classification
Category confidence: 70%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: AI vision system error caused broadcast confusion but no physical harm or major consequences.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8