A Gambling Reference Every 4 Minutes: Sports TV Has a Problem It Won’t Admit

The Washington Post trained an AI to watch 50 hours of sports television and count gambling references — commercials, arena logos, broadcast overlays, analysts quoting spreads. Nearly 90,000 frames analyzed. The result: one gambling reference every four minutes, across every sport, every broadcast, every network. Hockey was the worst. Gambling references appeared in 60% ofContinue reading “A Gambling Reference Every 4 Minutes: Sports TV Has a Problem It Won’t Admit”

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