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AI-Generated Content on This Site

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Every photographic image on this site was made with an AI image generator. None of them is a photograph, and none of them is a photograph of the venue whose page it sits on. Each one shows a scene of the right kind, a gaming floor or a row of terminals or a saddling paddock or a race in progress, and the venue pages say as much next to the pictures themselves.

Each of these images carries the letters AI in the corner of the picture, visible the moment the image is. The larger images at the top of a page repeat that in a caption underneath. On every image the alt text, which is the description a screen reader announces and a browser shows when a picture fails to load, names the AI origin in the same breath as the subject. The mark is part of the page rather than part of the file, which means it is legible at the size the image is actually shown and can be corrected if the wording ever needs to change.

Underneath that, inside every file we deliver, is a machine-readable marker: the IPTC field DigitalSourceType set to trainedAlgorithmicMedia, written into all three formats the site serves. It is there so that software which inspects images, whether a search engine, a content-credential checker or another publisher, can establish the origin without relying on a human reading a badge. Provenance information of this kind is never altered, stripped or faked here, in either direction: we do not remove markers to hide that an image was generated, and we do not add markers claiming an origin an image does not have.

Behind both of those is a written record, kept per image, that states the source, whether the picture is photorealistic or illustrative, whether it is one that needs a visible label, and the reason for that judgement. That record is what the policy is actually enforced against, and it is what we would hand to a regulator asking how a given image was assessed.

Two things on this site are not AI images and carry no mark, because they do not need one. The diagrams in the guides are drawn in code from the venue data recorded here. Change a figure in the data and the diagram changes with it, so they are charts of our own records rather than generated pictures. The site's own mark in the header is drawn by hand in the same way. Flat diagrams and logos of this kind are not capable of being mistaken for photographs, which is the test that decides whether a label is owed at all.

Why these pictures are generated rather than photographed

The honest answer is that the alternatives do not work for a site like this one. Stock photo licences generally exclude gambling and betting use, which rules out the ordinary route. The venues themselves do not hand out photography rights to sites that write about them, and a reference page about what is on a gaming floor is poorly served by a picture of something else. So the images are generated, and the prompts that produce them are written to exclude any identifiable building and any recognisable face. What you see is a type of room, not a place you could go and stand in.

That decision is reviewed whenever the site is rebuilt or refreshed. An illustrated image carries no labelling duty at all, so moving this site to illustration rather than photography would remove the question instead of answering it, and that remains an open option.

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AI tools are used to support research and drafting on this site. Every fact published here is checked against a primary source before it goes up: the operators' own published material, the two Ohio regulators, and public company filings. Where sources disagree, the page says so and prints no figure rather than picking one and presenting it as settled. The gaming-floor area of one venue is recorded as unconfirmed for exactly that reason.

What each page records, and where each class of fact comes from, is set out on the about page. If something here is wrong, the contact page is the way to say so.

Questions about AI use on this site

Are any of the photographs on this site real?
No. Every photographic image here was generated. The diagrams in the guides are drawn in code from the data recorded on this site, and the site mark in the header is drawn by hand; neither is a generated picture.

Does an image show the venue on whose page it appears?
No, and that is deliberate. The prompts exclude identifiable buildings and recognisable faces, so each picture shows a scene of the right kind rather than the specific place. The venue pages say so alongside the images.

How is an AI image marked?
Three ways at once. The letters AI sit in the corner of the picture itself; the alt text names the AI origin alongside the description; and the IPTC DigitalSourceType marker trainedAlgorithmicMedia is written inside every file we deliver. Larger images repeat the disclosure in a caption.

Why is the mark not burned into the image file?
Because a mark baked into the pixels cannot be undone, cannot be resized for the place the image is shown, and cannot be corrected if the wording changes. Rendering it as part of the page keeps the disclosure legible at thumbnail size and keeps the original file intact. The machine-readable marker is in the file; the human-readable label is on the page.

Is the text on this site written by AI?
AI tools support the research and drafting. The facts are checked against primary sources, meaning the operators, the two Ohio regulators and public filings, before anything is published, and a figure that cannot be confirmed is left out rather than estimated.

Who is responsible for the content here?
The site is published without bylines and attributes nothing to a named individual, because inventing a person to put in that role would be worse than leaving it empty. That is why this page exists: it discloses the use of AI directly rather than relying on an exemption that depends on naming someone.