Mariners broadcaster explains why she used AI for formulating question in viral video

Baseball reporter Angie Mentink is handling her viral 15 seconds with grace, poking fun at herself after a video was posted on social media showing her using Google Gemini to formulate postgame questions. A social media account posted a video of her during a Mariners game as she asked the AI assistant for some help with questions. The video quickly generated plenty of reactions, despite its lack of context or the voyeuristic nature of how it was taken, after it was posted on X. But Mentink, who has been a member of the Mariners broadcast team since the late 1990s, took the whole thing in stride. “Currently asking AI how to handle going viral for using AI,” Mentink wrote on X.“In all seriousness, I’m late to the AI party.

Earlier this season I experimented with AI to see if it had any questions to add to my list for my postgame coverage.We’ve come a long way from pen and paper when I started in 1997.“Always learning.” Mentink is a well-liked and well-respected part of the Mariners broadcast, and many have noted that it’s an impressive feat that she’s even back to work this season after suffering a “ministroke” in February and a “severe and unmistakable stroke” a day later that left her paralyzed on the left side. To add to the conversation, MLB.com’s Daniel Kramer noted in a post on social media that the video was “not” from Wednesday’s game and that “Mariners TV doesn’t do walk-off interviews after losses.” “No, this was a stroke victim back at work for the first time — weeks ago — trying to regain her bearings,” he wrote.The Mariners will be back on the diamond on Thursday to finish up a three-game set with the Padres before returning to Seattle to host the Rangers this weekend....