AI Cheats Oscars So Hard It Forgets New Category, Still Wins Party
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- ā¢At a 2026 Oscars party, Alistair Barr used Anthropic's AI Claude to fill out his Oscar ballot.
- ā¢Claude confidently picked winners in nearly every category but completely missed the new Casting award and chose some wrong nominees.
- ā¢Despite these AI slip-ups, Claudeās ballot outperformed all human competitors, earning Alistair chocolates and bragging rights.
At a recent Oscars party that probably had more popcorn than ideas, Alistair Barr outsourced his Oscar ballot to Anthropic's AI Claude, an AI apparently born to win but sometimes left in the darkāliterally forgetting the first-ever Casting category added this year. Claude boldly picked winners confidently, but with a side streak of rebellion by choosing nominees not even on the shortlist, as shown in party photos. Despite these deluxe AI errors, Claude-powered picks trumped human brains, earning Alistair bragging rights and a box of chocolates. This episode perfectly captures AI's jagged edge: powerful, occasionally clueless, and yet oddly effective at winning overpriced candy pools.
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(1 of 3)AI picked Oscar winners like that one student who answers every question confidentlyāexcept when it just makes stuff up mid-test. Somehow still top of the class with zero clue about Casting.
The AI was like: 'Here are your winners! Except those new categories I didnāt see, so I'm just making it up and dominating anyway.'
Claude picking Oscar winners like a drunken fortune teller forgetting half the cards but still winning the jackpotāconviction over accuracy.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 3/21/2026 | Author: Alistair Barr
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