He's claiming that his AI articles are fact-checked, and now advertising them as such. At the time of this post he has three articles not only marked as "fact-checked" but also as being viewable on YouTube. Sounds like a good idea, but it's straight-up misleading and, well frankly, pure unadulterated bullshit.
See, Kenny isn't actually fact-checking these articles...no. What he is doing is allegedly allowing people to let him know when there is an inaccuracy in his AI slop. Sure, he does technically state, "someone looked at it before it reached you" .....but did someone really?
- So what we have here is Kenny saying "someone" is looking at the AI article, slapping a "Fact Checked Badge" on it, and if anyone notices some incorrect information, please "tell us". There are so many questions:
- Who is this someone, presumably.....Kenny?
- Is there actually a "someone", or are you just saying this to get people off your case? Is this another "The physical books should ship this week", or maybe "Pencil Dice are in full swing production". Oh....there the classic, "DVDs will ship in August" Honestly this list could go on and on....
- So if we find something incorrect, exactly how do we "tell you"? What's the method for correction here?
WE'RE ADDING A FACT-CHECKED BADGE TO OUR COVERAGE — HERE'S WHAT THAT ACTUALLY MEANS
You may have noticed something new on our articles. That Fact Checked badge in the corner is not decoration. It is a commitment, and we want to be straight with you about what it means — including the part that is a little uncomfortable to say out loud.
HOW OUR CONTENT GETS MADE
We use AI-assisted writing tools to help produce our coverage, and we are not going to bury that in a footnote. AI lets us cover more designers, more games, and more of the history and craft behind this hobby than we could produce any other way. That part is genuinely useful.
The problem is that AI also gets things wrong in ways that are easy to miss if nobody is checking — and for a while, we were moving fast enough that not everyone was checking as carefully as they should have been. It conflates credits. It misremembers release dates. It can generate a title that sounds completely plausible and does not exist.
For coverage of real designers and real games — people who have spent years or decades building something — that is not a mistake we are willing to shrug off. So before anything publishes under our name, it goes through a structured editorial review. Sources get checked. Credits get verified. Anything that cannot be confirmed gets cut, softened, or flagged.
That is what the badge means. Not that a machine wrote it perfectly. That someone looked at it before it reached you.
SLOWING DOWN ON PURPOSE
We are also pulling back on pace. For a while, speed felt like the point. It was not. Going forward, we are limiting ourselves to four articles a day so each piece has real time for source checking, credit verification, and editorial review before it earns the Fact Checked badge. That means fewer posts. It should also mean better ones.
WHY WE'RE TELLING YOU THIS
Honestly? Because not telling you felt worse.
The tabletop RPG community is small enough that reputations travel fast and corrections travel slow. A wrong credit on a designer profile does not just make us look sloppy — it misrepresents someone's career to the people who care most about it. We have seen that happen at other outlets. We watched it happen and thought we were different. We do not want to find out we were wrong about that.
AI-assisted content with real editorial review is how we cover this hobby at the scale we want without cutting corners on accuracy. The Fact Checked badge is how we hold ourselves to it. If we are not willing to put it on a piece, we probably know something still needs checking.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
If you spot something off, tell us. A credit we got wrong, a date that does not match, a title that needs correction — send us the source or correction if you have it. The review process catches most things. It does not catch everything, and we are not pretending otherwise. Reader corrections are part of how this actually works.
We want this coverage to earn your trust — not ask for it upfront and hope you do not look too closely.
The badge is us trying to mean what we say.
In the end, what we have here is some nebulous promises from Kenny that don't actually address the issues that these "icons" have been expressing about these articles. Slapping a label on a cover graphic feels like a band-aid designed to mislead third-parties to think that grievances are being addressed while giving people a means to make corrections....not that anyone will even know when/if corrections have been made or if the content is correct to begin with.
It seems to me this post and these labels are intentionally misleading. Might as well slap a label on the graphics that says, "Now with facts!" .....and by the way "someone looked at it before it reached you" is a much lower bar that "fact-checked". I really don't think Ken understands the difference.
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