FLSportsDesk.com · Standards
AI Transparency
What our pipeline automates, what humans control, and the one standard everything must meet.
The standard
Whatever produced a piece, a person, a pipeline, or the two together, the rule is identical: what publishes must match its sources, and what we cannot verify does not run. AI never converts an unverified claim into a published one.
Two ways AI touches our work
- Automated data features. Scoreboards, schedules, odds boards, and similar data presentations are generated automatically from primary data feeds (league, team, and official sources) and monitored by the editorial desk on a regular refresh cycle. If a feed goes wrong, the desk catches it on the cycle and corrects it under the Corrections Policy.
- AI-assisted drafting. Columns, analysis, and features are prepared with AI-assisted drafting under human editorial control. Every specific factual claim in a drafted piece, stats, records, quotes, financial figures, goes through the same human source-check as any other claim. AI output is a first draft, never a source.
What AI does not do here
- It does not decide what the desk covers.
- It does not publish unreviewed opinion or analysis.
- It is never cited as a source, because it is not one.
- It does not fabricate quotes or statistics, and the editorial process exists to make sure none slip through (see Editorial Policy).
Accountability
A human editor is responsible for every published piece regardless of how much of the drafting involved AI assistance. Errors are handled identically regardless of origin: verified, corrected, and where the correction standard requires it, noted and logged publicly.