AI policy

The short version

A human is accountable for every article on this site. Automated tools may assist with the mechanical parts of producing it. No tool independently establishes a gameplay fact, and nothing reaches a reader without a person having checked it and put their name behind it.

Where automation may assist

• Research organisation — collecting, sorting and summarising sources an editor has already selected, so a person spends their time reading rather than collating.
• Transcription — turning developer streams, interviews and video into searchable text, which is then checked against the recording.
• Formatting and structure — headings, tables, markup cleanup and consistency with our style.
• Draft preparation — outlines and first passes that an editor then rewrites, verifies and takes responsibility for.
• Data comparison — diffing patch notes between versions to surface what changed, which a person then evaluates.
• Quality checks — spelling, broken links, missing alt text, inconsistent terminology, and flagging claims that appear to lack a source.

Where automation is not used

These are the hard limits:

• AI does not establish gameplay facts.A model’s claim about how a weapon behaves, what a quest step requires, or what a patch changed is not evidence. Those claims are verified against the game or an official source, by a person, or they are not published.
• AI does not verify anything.It cannot play the game, and asking one model to check another’s output is not verification.
• AI does not write in a fabricated human voice. We do not invent author personas, biographies, credentials or firsthand experience. Where a piece is the work of the desk rather than one person, it carries our team byline, and that profile explains exactly what the byline means.
• AI does not generate quotes. Every quotation in an FPSing article was actually said or written by the person it is attributed to.
• AI does not generate statistics. A plausible-looking number with no source behind it is worse than no number.
• AI-generated imagery is not used as editorial illustration — it cannot show you what a map or a weapon actually looks like, which is the only reason to include an image in a guide.

Accountability

Every published article has a named human editor responsible for it. If an error reaches you, that is a human failure and we handle it as one — see our corrections policy. “A tool produced it” is not an explanation we will offer, because it is not one.

Why we publish this

Guides are read by people about to spend their time acting on them. A wrong loadout recommendation costs a reader an evening; a wrong quest step costs them a run. You are entitled to know how what you are reading was produced, and to weigh that when deciding whether to act on it.

This policy is reviewed as our tooling changes. If you think we have fallen short of it, write to editorial@fpsing.com.