Does the AI winrate simply tell us what is "Joseki"

To me, AI is a sieve, not a sculptor. If a pre-AI joseki ends in 90% win rate for one player, that tells you that the joseki status was in error. Indeed, this has already happened (see Russian Go Federation twitter), and we needn’t wait around for professional confirmation when the evidence is right before our eyes. On the other hand, only pros can confer joseki status. This is by definition—joseki as a standard and studied sequence that is considered balanced for both sides. Of course, pros freely draw from AI analyses. But I feel that amateurs are not positioned to do that work for them.

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