AI transparency
How We Use AI
Token Times uses AI to help produce its news. Here is precisely what that means, what is automated, and the human-designed rules that keep it accurate and honest.
Token Times uses AI to draft its news briefs and market reports, working inside strict, human-designed rules. The AI may use only facts from the supplied sources and our verified data; it may never invent figures, quotes, names, predict prices or give advice. Crucially, all prices and data come from real public APIs — the AI writes the words around the data, never the data itself.
What AI does here
Token Times’s news briefs and market reports are drafted by a large language model — our “newsdesk” — working inside strict, human-designed rules. The engine monitors reputable crypto feeds, groups together outlets reporting the same story, and writes an original summary in our own words, grounded only in the publishers’ syndication text and our own live market data.
What the AI may never do
The model is instructed to use only the facts in the supplied source summaries and our verified data. It may never invent figures, quotes, names, dates or outcomes; never predict prices; never give financial advice. When sources disagree on a number it must report the range, not a guess. Output that fails our checks — too thin, off-topic, or not grounded in the evidence — is discarded or replaced with a data-only summary that invents nothing.
The human-designed guardrails
Around the model sit rules we wrote and enforce in code: a no-fabrication rule, mandatory source attribution, data-grounding against CoinGecko, Binance, DefiLlama and mempool.space, a subject-accuracy check that discards any summary about the wrong asset, transformative-only summarisation (we never reproduce a source’s wording), and YMYL safety (no advice, no predictions).
Data is not AI-generated
Every price, market cap, TVL figure, on-chain number and exchange rate on Token Times comes from a real public data API and is shown with a source timestamp. AI writes the words around the data — it never makes up the data itself.
Why we disclose this
We believe you deserve to know how what you read is produced. That is also why the byline on every brief is our organisational newsdesk — “Token Times Newsdesk” or “Token Times Market Desk” — and never a fabricated human author. More on that in our newsroom.
Frequently asked questions
Is Token Times’s news written by AI?
Yes — our briefs and market reports are drafted by a large language model acting as our newsdesk, inside rules we designed and enforce in code. It synthesises reporting from reputable outlets and our live data into an original summary.
Can the AI make up facts or prices?
No. A no-fabrication rule means it may only use facts present in the supplied sources and our verified data. Output that is too thin, off-topic or not grounded in the evidence is discarded or replaced with a data-only summary that invents nothing.
Does the AI generate the market data?
No. Every price, market cap, TVL figure and exchange rate comes from a real public data API (CoinGecko, Binance, DeFiLlama, mempool.space) and is shown with a source timestamp. AI never makes up the data.
Why does Token Times disclose its AI use?
Because you deserve to know how what you read is produced. It is also why our byline is the organisational newsdesk, never a fabricated human author — see our newsroom.