MLB Broadcaster Defends AI Usage After Internet Pile on Following Health Struggles

Angie Mentink via X Credit: Angie Mentink/X NEED TO KNOW Mariners broadcaster Angie Mentink defended her use of AI after a fan recorded the moment on video Mentink, who suffered a stroke in February and only returned to the team in late March, said he had been experimenting with AI earlier in the season "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," Mentink joked An MLB broadcaster had a clever response after she was criticized for using AI. Angie Mentink, an on-air broadcaster for the Seattle Mariners since 1997, took to X on Thursday, April 16 to address a viral video, first shared a now-deleted post , that shows her typing, "Good questions to ask after a tough loss in baseball" into an AI tool during a game. Mentink, who suffered a stroke in late February and only returned to the Mariners on March 28, wasted little time before addressing the video.

"Currently asking AI how to handle going viral for using AI," she began in a post on X. Angie Mentink via X Credit: Angie Mentink/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," Mentink wrote, concluding her post with, "Always learning. " Mentink's post was met with positive feedback from some fans who defended her and called the AI use "brainstorming" her questions, while others suggested she's "taking jobs from people who actually know the tough questions to ask. " Mentink returned to the team in March after recovering from the stroke, which left her paralyzed on her left side and required her to relearn how to walk and complete everyday basic tasks, she told the Seattle Times at the time .

The broadcaster said the Mariners organization has been "so awesome" during her recovery. “I was trying to get back for spring training. I was like, ‘I can do this, I can do this, I can do this.