Younger generation loves Using AI for World Cup betting

[mirakal]

I thought there were many wise bettors, but it turns out that quite a lot actually believe in AI.

Because according to this report, UKGC Finds 7% of World Cup Bettors Used AI to Pick Bets

The report also says that most of those using AI for betting are younger bettors.

Younger Bettors Turned to AI More Often
AI use varied considerably by age:

12% of bettors aged 18-34 used AI when choosing bets;
6% of those aged 35-54 reported doing so;
3.5% of respondents over 55 used AI.

I wonder how they did, did they win? I don't think so, otherwise there would already be many services offering AI predictions where their clients are making profits.
I haven't read any news about that yet, if there is any, please share it here, but I doubt there is.

[GreatArkansas]

The report itself said they didn't check if those bets performed better, so no data yet if they won. I tried this before on basketball, just few games, and AI gave me 3 wins and 2 losses, not bad but not something you can call an edge. I think even with AI right now, it's still difficult to make it as your advantage.
It just based on stats and previous matches which you can also check by yourself, so luck is still there whether you use AI or not.

[qwertyup23]

The report itself said they didn't check if those bets performed better, so no data yet if they won. I tried this before on basketball, just few games, and AI gave me 3 wins and 2 losses, not bad but not something you can call an edge. I think even with AI right now, it's still difficult to make it as your advantage.
It just based on stats and previous matches which you can also check by yourself, so luck is still there whether you use AI or not.

Well I guess the reason on why the younger generation loves using AI technology on their bets because it produces results.

Imagine where you can control and utilize AI to manage and do your bets. Technically, it is some passive income on their part. Even if the result yields a 3-2 on your favor, still, a win is a win. The question is- does the utilization of AI destroy the core intent of gambling? I would argue no given that we should exercise all the means necessary in order to have the slightest advantage on our bets.

Though this may be the case, I would like to caution everyone that the use of AI on our bets should not be used absolutely where we would replace our discretion for theirs. The ultimate decision must still come from us based on the research that we did. Use AI as a supportive tool; not as an absolute tool where you would entirely rely on them.

[GrigoryGaga]

I don’t think it’s stupid. If you know what data to feed the AI and how to frame the question, it can process patterns faster and more thoroughly than most people. I don’t bet myself, but I’ve been using AI for everyday stuff for a while and it’s clear you can’t just blindly trust the output, you still need to think and double-check. Same logic probably applies to betting.

[un_rank]

7% does not show love for AI among any of the generation, just a growth in its usage as there is in every other field - the younger generation have warmed up AI already and most of the bookies already offer AI tips on their website.

The survey uses a sample size of >1000 people all from one particular country. There is not enough spread for it to show actual patterns in gambling habits.

- Jay -

[Cointxz]

Honestly, I use AI sometimes when betting on sports that I’m not familiar like Football world cup and recently on NFL. AI analyze sports like the typical sports analyst so their pick will always based on statistics which is not that bad to consider especially if you don’t have deep knowledge on the specific sports you’re planning to bet.

I believe those AI users probably experienced a so-so betting experience since AI will always suggest the safer pick while players only disadvantage is when much usually resulted to an upset since AI never take an underdog bet. 

[mirakal]

7% does not show love for AI among any of the generation, just a growth in its usage as there is in every other field - the younger generation have warmed up AI already and most of the bookies already offer AI tips on their website.

For World Cup betting only, but overall we don't really know. but at least this gives us an idea that many young bettors are really using AI.
Well, it's still the same thing, when we analyze we use data, so why not ask AI to find it and then give us the prediction.

But for me, I would ask for predictions but I will still analyze before making the final bet.

Mostly I use AI just to gather information.

AI gave me 3 wins and 2 losses, not bad but not something you can call an edge.

Good for you, but try more games, maybe 100 bets, if you get 60 wins then maybe we can say that AI could really make bettors profitable.

[avp2306]

I thought there were many wise bettors, but it turns out that quite a lot actually believe in AI.

Because according to this report, UKGC Finds 7% of World Cup Bettors Used AI to Pick Bets

The report also says that most of those using AI for betting are younger bettors.

Younger Bettors Turned to AI More Often
AI use varied considerably by age:

12% of bettors aged 18-34 used AI when choosing bets;
6% of those aged 35-54 reported doing so;
3.5% of respondents over 55 used AI.

I wonder how they did, did they win? I don't think so, otherwise there would already be many services offering AI predictions where their clients are making profits.
I haven't read any news about that yet, if there is any, please share it here, but I doubt there is.

Is that actually surprising? because Ai is somehow part of our live's now.

That's why I don't see anything wrong if young generation seeks for help of Ai to figure out the possible result, since we can't deny that this technology is somehow helpful to anyone.

But talking about winning Ai will not guarantee to give 100% result. Because what we can find given by this tools is the data's and other probabilities.

[Charles-Tim]

I wonder how they did, did they win?

It depends on luck, but AI can be very helpful. Most likely they will lose than win. Betting sites are businesses for the betting sites owners. They have to make money from their customers, which are the bettors.

I don't think so, otherwise there would already be many services offering AI predictions where their clients are making profits.

Some thing like this is existing before AI become very common, but avoid it because they are just scamming.

The best is to use AI like ChatGPT or Gemini yourself to give you information about an upcoming match.

But no guarantee that you would win. AI are not things that see the future but they can make your analysis easier and faster.

[davis196]

Younger Bettors Turned to AI More Often
AI use varied considerably by age:

12% of bettors aged 18-34 used AI when choosing bets;
6% of those aged 35-54 reported doing so;
3.5% of respondents over 55 used AI.

I can't find anything groundbreaking in such data. Everybody knows that AI usage among the young people is higher compared to the elderly people. I find it totally normal that younger sports bettors and gamblers have started using AI to make betting predictions for them. There's no guarantee that this would work, but it doesn't hurt if you try it for a while and see the results. If the results are bad, those people would stop using AI and return to their own betting behavior. Anyone, who offers "AI betting bots" on Telegram and Discord is a complete scammer.
AI cannot provide a consistently high win ratio in sports betting.

[m0nica.just]

Younger Bettors Turned to AI More Often
AI use varied considerably by age:

12% of bettors aged 18-34 used AI when choosing bets;
6% of those aged 35-54 reported doing so;
3.5% of respondents over 55 used AI.

If the older generation kept the same mental flexibility and picked up new tech as easily then the numbers would be equal. This is not really about loving AI... It is about how our ability to learn new things drops as we get older  

[freedomgo]

Maybe it's easy to predict using AI if you will just predict the winner, but if there's already a point spread or handicap that's where it gets difficult. For basketball games where handicaps are very popular, I have tried this and I failed, so from there I no longer use AI to predict.

For me, I feel like it makes us lazy and we will have the same predictions as other people so something seems wrong, because winning should not be easy with AI predictions if it were that easy we would all be winning. I don't know if there are people who are successful with it, because some might say that they win in betting using AI but if they cannot provide proof, then it's just their assumption.

[Oshosondy]

If the older generation kept the same mental flexibility and picked up new tech as easily then the numbers would be equal. This is not really about loving AI... It is about how our ability to learn new things drops as we get older 

But do you know that people in their 50s, 60s, 70s and surprisingly people in their 80s are now using AI? AI is now to just download an app like ChatGPT and start asking questions on the app. That is not difficult to understand.

Another is to ask questions on Google and you will see Google AI answers above the search. Older people that were using Google were using this also.

[Mustang Shelby]

The report itself said they didn't check if those bets performed better, so no data yet if they won. I tried this before on basketball, just few games, and AI gave me 3 wins and 2 losses, not bad but not something you can call an edge. I think even with AI right now, it's still difficult to make it as your advantage.
It just based on stats and previous matches which you can also check by yourself, so luck is still there whether you use AI or not.

Artificial intelligence cannot act on emotion, statistics are important to it, and it makes predictions based on statistics. However, the emotions of athletes during a match can completely change the course of the game. Therefore, I think trusting AI in betting is not very wise. They can be successful in many areas, but I don't think they are very successful or reliable in prediction matters like this.

[Pandu Geddon]

AI remains a tool for generating data-based information. The predictions it suggests will never be completely accurate, especially in a competition as big as the World Cup where surprises are very likely to happen. I make predictions in the group stage and it is quite easy to win. But when entering the next rounds, everything becomes harder to predict.
I don't know why quite a few people trust AI predictions. From a data perspective, we can consider AI's results, but on the field, we know many factors can influence the outcome of a match.

[len01]

AI has become one modern tool widely used by young people today, so it's no surprise that young bettors use it more often. But AI is still far from perfect, and when used to predict match results, its predictions can be quite random. Someone on this forum has even conducted an experiment before, and the results were poor.

So for me, AI is quite useful for finding the data we need to make our own analysis. But we shouldn't put too much trust in AI predictions.

[9ja Amaka]

Did you use AI to derive this report? Because if you did, I'm not going to believe it.
Like you, a lot of people are using AI for almost everything they do.
I use AI to check match statistics, but AI might count it as asking for betting tips, even though I wasn't doing so.
If I don't know where the report came from, it will be hard to know its authenticity.

[acroman08]

I wonder how they did, did they win? I don't think so, otherwise there would already be many services offering AI predictions where their clients are making profits.

Maybe some did, and some didn't, and if I remember correctly, there is some thread here in the forum where they experiment with using AI to place bets, and some of the bets did win, and some did lose. AI is basing its predictions on information from the teams/athlete's previous matches, so AI are basically giving an "educated" guess when it is predicting something, which is almost the same as other tipster services out there.

[Miles2006]

The younger generation have access to the internet, certainly for sure if anyone had the privilege to access a digital tech that helps analyze the game prediction obviously everyone would love to try it out.
Personally, I don’t find the use of AI tech helpful in this aspect, several times I used AI to analyze my games prediction and it turns out the outcome was not all that promising. I understand the games vary, everyone has their different ways of using AI meanwhile the use of AI to predict is not a new information.

[Sobz]

There is nothing wrong with using AI to bet, but the most important thing is never to rely on it to think it will definitely make one win big. Of course, AI can help a gambler get some information about a team, but the problem some people are facing is how they use AI.

Maybe they want AI to help them play the game, but for easy booking of games to get information about a team, such as their current position and if they are strong enough to face their opponents. This is the information that is expected to be obtained from AI, but one should not completely depend on AI to help win the game.