Our AI policy: the evidence is human
Every verdict on CryptoGamble starts with real money. A person deposits, plays and withdraws, usually live on stream, with the transaction IDs on-chain for anyone to check. That is our live testing, and no AI does that work, or can.
We do use AI. It helps us analyse casino terms, keep a large database current and turn our test data into readable pages. It never decides anything, and nothing it drafts goes live until a person on our editorial team has checked and approved it. This page explains exactly where AI helps and where it never goes.
Why we publish this
CryptoGamble is built on one thing: players trusting what we tell them. Every review, grade and warning is worth nothing if you cannot believe how it was made.
AI helps us work faster. It does not make us right, and it is not how CryptoGamble runs. Two things always stay with people:
- Running the site. Testing casinos, checking data, editing and approving every page.
- Making decisions. Grades, recommendations, warnings and what gets published at all.
The way to earn trust is to be open about how we work, including the tools we use. So this page sets out exactly where AI is used and where it is not. Anyone checking our information, whether a player, a journalist or another site, can see how we reached it. We hope it helps others in this industry be just as open.
What stays human
- Real-money testing. A real person tests every casino we review, with real accounts and our own money. Most tests run live on stream, where viewers can watch, ask questions in chat and get answers in real time. It is not a pre-recorded video.
- Proof you can check. Deposits and withdrawals carry blockchain transaction IDs, and stream recordings show the session as it happened.
- The tester's judgement. What the casino felt like, whether we would deposit again and who it suits come from the tester's own notes. AI does not form that opinion.
- Testing and editorial are separate. Royal (@RoyalGambles) runs the public testing and guides the site, but he does not make editorial decisions. A separate editorial team reviews and approves what gets published.
- Grades and rankings. Our scores come from our methodology and coded rules we designed around what matters to players. They are calculated by code, not by an AI's opinion.
- Warnings. Every recommendation, not-recommended verdict, blacklist and graveyard entry is a human decision.
Where AI helps
New crypto casinos launch almost every week, and players check them every day: is it legit, does it pay, what do the terms hide. We are a team of four. We track more than 150 casinos, each with over 250 data points, from payment methods and game providers to KYC rules and our own test results. And casinos keep changing: new games, new features, rewritten terms.
Four people cannot keep that much information current by hand. Modern AI can now read and compare it at a scale that was not possible a few years ago. That is the job we give it: the heavy reading, so our time goes into testing and judgement.
- Analysing terms and conditions. Casino terms can run to thousands of lines. AI reads them and pulls out the clauses that matter to a player: win caps, withdrawal limits, KYC triggers, bonus rules, VPN policy. Our coded scoring rules, the CryptoGamble Fairness Index (CGFI), then grade those clauses, and we keep the exact wording so every finding can be checked against the source. We often discuss this analysis live on stream.
- Keeping the database current. AI helps us compare old and new information, spot what changed and flag what needs a fresh check.
- Drafting pages. AI writes the first draft of reviews and verdict summaries from our own data: test figures, the tester's notes, the terms analysis and our casino records. It works from prompts and a review structure our editorial team designed and researched. It is not asked to add anything that is not in that data.
How a page gets published
AI cannot publish anything on CryptoGamble. Every page follows the same path:
- A person collects the evidence. The tester runs the real-money test and records what happened.
- AI drafts. It turns that evidence into a draft, following our editorial framework.
- An editor checks every claim. They verify the facts, rewrite by hand, and add or remove whatever is needed.
- Approve or send back. A page that falls short goes back for manual correction, then returns for approval.
- Only approved pages go live.
When we retest a casino, we collect new data, check what we already hold, and the updated page goes through the same approval.
What AI will never do here
- Fake a test. No simulated sessions, no invented data. Every figure on a review comes from a test a person ran.
- Review a casino we never tested. The only exception is a warning, and putting a casino in our warning area or blacklist is a human decision.
- Invent experience. AI cannot add deposits, withdrawals, KYC checks, support chats, wins or opinions that did not happen in our testing.
- Fake proof. We never use AI to create or edit transaction records, screenshots or stream footage.
- Decide a grade, a rank or a warning. Scores come from our coded methodology. Recommendations and warnings come from people.
- Write player reviews. Every player review is written by a real player.
- Approve its own work. Only an editor can approve a page.
And no casino can pay to change what we decide to publish about it. That decision belongs to our editorial team, not to AI and not to a commercial deal. Read more on how we keep our editorial independence.
Where you see AI on the site
These parts of the site are drafted with AI and then checked by an editor:
- Review pages, built from our test records, the tester's notes and our terms analysis.
- Verdict summaries next to our CGFI and BitRank results, explaining in plain words what the terms and our test showed.
- Peer comparisons, showing how a casino stands against similar casinos in our Benchmark.
- Listing cards and "Our Take" panels, built from the tester's own written verdict.
The facts under every one of these come from us: money we deposited, terms we read, sessions we recorded. AI only puts them into sentences.
Every page drafted this way carries a note at the end:
Written with the help of AI, checked by our editors. The testing, the figures, the grades and the verdict come from our own real-money tests and our methodology. AI helped turn them into this page.
Player reviews and community
Player reviews are the player's words, not ours, so we treat them differently from editorial pages.
- Checked by hand. Our team reads every review manually and asks for proof of deposit and wager. No proof, no publication. We do this by hand on purpose: what players write, and the details they give us, matter to us.
- Never rewritten. We do not use AI to edit, correct the spelling of, translate or polish a review. It stays exactly as the player wrote it.
- AI-written reviews. If we suspect a review was generated by AI, we do not publish it. We ask the player to write it again in their own words.
- No AI summaries, for now. We do not currently use AI to summarise player reviews. If we add that in future, it will be clearly labelled as a summary, never presented as one player's opinion.
- Discord and comments. We do not use AI to post, reply or moderate in our community spaces.
Information from casinos
Casinos sometimes send us factual details: game providers, supported cryptocurrencies, licence documents, new features. We use these to keep our database accurate.
We never publish a casino's own copy as our content. If an operator sends us text, AI-written or not, we rewrite it by hand. Our reviews are built on our own testing, not on what the casino says about itself. The casino does not write our conclusion.
When AI gets it wrong
AI makes mistakes. That is exactly why it never publishes on its own, and why our editors check every draft. If an error still reaches the site, the responsibility is ours, not the tool's.
If something on a page does not match your experience or a casino's current terms, tell us on Discord or through our contact page. We will check it against our records and correct it.
We update this page as our tools change.
Don't trust. Verify.