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"The Star-Spangled Banner" has never been interpreted quite like this before.

As people worry about whether artificial intelligence (AI) will replace people's jobs, it appears at least one job is safe—the person who puts the closed captioning text on the jumbotron at sports events.

A video shared on X (formerly Twitter) shows what happened at a Portland Trail Blazers basketball game when some kind of automated closed captioning tool misheard the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner." You know, our country's national anthem that pretty much every American knows by heart? And the captions it came up with were hilariously entertaining.

A guy named Brian (@brianonhere) shared the video with the text, "bro im crying lmao. of all the songs to use AI captions on." As the jumbotron captions came on the screen while the national anthem was being sung, this is what people in the crowd saw:

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