“One in a billion,” “pre-ordained,” “unbelievable.” There has been a long list of adjectives used to describe the quirk of fate which saw Lionel Messi pictured with a baby Lamine Yamal almost two decades before the pair would face off in the World Cup final. Messi himself opted for “crazy.”
“As someone who likes to think of myself as technologically fluent and able to spot AI versus a real image, I thought that the image of Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal was AI,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani admitted.
