# Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you? - EQL Blog

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**Created:** [1 March 2025 05:38 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/who-needs-a-sneaker-bot-when-ai-can-hallucinate-a-win-for-you-eql-blog/189356 "2025-03-01T05:38:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [1 March 2025 05:38 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/who-needs-a-sneaker-bot-when-ai-can-hallucinate-a-win-for-you-eql-blog/189356/1 "2025-03-01T05:38:01Z")

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> Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you? - EQL Blog.  
> AI tried to take launch results into their own… hands? And it caused some heartbreak.

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> **[Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you? - EQL Blog](https://www.eql.com/media/sneaker-bot-ai-error)**
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> AI tried to take launch results into their own... hands? And it caused some heartbreak.

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**Author:** ![alvinkatojr](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/alvinkatojr/32/6613_2.png) [@alvinkatojr](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/alvinkatojr)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2025 21:05 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/who-needs-a-sneaker-bot-when-ai-can-hallucinate-a-win-for-you-eql-blog/189356/2 "2025-03-01T21:05:51Z")

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Hahaha Yahoo! dropped the ball on this one. A good read through this article reveals the follies of model training on stale data. Garbage in, garbage out.