The adoption of artificial intelligence has made its way into soccer, with one coach saying she consulted a service to work on tactics this season.

Laura Harvey, the head coach of the NWSL’s Seattle Reign, has admitted to using ChatGPT when determining how to set up her team in this past season.

In an appearance on the Soccerish Podcast with Christina Unkel and Lori Lindsey, the former Arsenal Women’s coach said she began to ask more vague questions to the AI chatbot service about strategies and style suggestions.

“One day in the off-season, I was writing things into ChatGPT like, “What is Seattle Reign’s identity?” And it would spurt it out. And I was like, “I don’t know if that’s true or not,” she said.

“And then I put in, ‘What formation should you play to beat NWSL teams?'” and it spurted out every team in the league and what formation you should play.

‘And for two teams, it went, “You should play a back five.” So I did. No joke, that’s why I did it.’