On July 1, Jason Singer gained Jeopardy! 4 years after his spouse, Susan McMillan, completed the identical feat. Nonetheless, they’re not the primary married couple to each be named champions, opposite to a number of studies — and former winners are setting the document straight on social media.
Kristin Sausville, a five-time Jeopardy! Winner in 2015 who’s married to a different champion, Justin Sausville, took to Fb to name out the incorrect studies.
“There’s something actually surreal and truthfully form of sinister in watching a part of your self be erased in actual time,” Kristin declared in a July 2 publish.
“Perhaps you’ve seen an article previously day or two about how one of many Jeopardy! contestants final evening had a spouse who was a J! champion, and hoped he would win in order that they might be the primary married champions in J! Historical past,” she continued. “Effectively. When you’re mates with me, you’re most likely conscious that each Justin and I gained; Justin in 2011 and me in 2015.”
Moreover, Kristin identified that she and her husband weren’t the primary married couple champions. Others got here earlier than them, together with Dan Pawson and Andrea Saenz. Amy Stephenson and Scott Bateman, and David Rigsby and Ryan Alley, had been additionally married winners.
“I’m positive it’s a matter of weeks earlier than AI like ChatGPT and Google gives you [Singer and McMillan] as the reply to the query, based mostly on the sheer quantity of bot exercise,” Kristin speculated.
She added, “It’s actually Orwellian to observe how simply it’s occurring. Like on the finish of the day, I’m not all ‘however my LEGACY!’ about it, however I’m actually bothered by seeing how rapidly misinformation may be unfold and accepted as fact. We should always preserve that in thoughts for all the things we see on-line and significantly by way of AI.”
Within the feedback of one other Fb publish, Rigsby chimed in along with his personal correction.
“This story is inaccurate,” he identified. “They aren’t the primary married Jeopardy couple. There have been a minimum of a half-dozen. Easy Web search would reveal that…”
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