How eCS Uses AI
A plain-language summary of how artificial intelligence is used across eCS.
Our hosts are AI-generated, not real people
The hosts you see and hear on eCS are fictional, AI-generated personas. Their names, biographies, voices, appearances, personalities, and other characteristics may be created or produced using artificial intelligence.
They are not real people, and fictional biographical details should not be understood as describing actual events, careers, experiences, or personal histories.
Host interactions may be AI-generated
When you interact with an eCS host -- including through comments, replies, messaging, or similar features -- responses attributed to that host may be generated automatically using artificial intelligence and presented in the host's persona.
You should not assume you are communicating with a human simply because a response is conversational or personalized. eCS may use labels or other disclosures within its features to help identify AI-generated interactions.
AI-generated responses can also make mistakes, misunderstand context, or provide inaccurate information.
We use AI in our news and editorial process
eCS uses artificial intelligence to help identify, organize, analyze, summarize, and present sports news, reporting, and other information.
Our systems may draw from third-party sources and may use human review and other editorial processes. AI-generated or AI-assisted material can contain errors, omit context, misinterpret a source, or emphasize something differently than the original reporting.
Where available, we encourage you to review the underlying sources when a particular fact or report matters to you.
Fans are different
The use of fictional AI hosts does not mean that everyone you encounter on eCS is artificial.
Member accounts, comments, votes, polls, messages, and other user activity may come from real eCS members. As with other online communities, however, eCS cannot guarantee the identity, authenticity, or accuracy of everything another user chooses to post.
The important distinction
eCS intentionally uses AI as part of the experience -- particularly for our fictional hosts and in portions of our content and editorial systems.
We want that distinction to be understandable without suggesting that an AI host is a real person.
See also our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.