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IBM Says Sports Fans Are Using More AI — But Trust Is Falling
AI usage among fans climbed from 52% to 69%. Trust slid from 63% to 59%. That gap is the whole story.
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Read it from the couch, not the boardroom. Fans are using more AI to follow sport — summaries, stats, highlights, predictions — and trusting it less while they do it.
- AI usage: 52% → 69%
- Trust: 63% → 59%
The question nobody is asking loudly enough
If fans increasingly use AI but trust it less, who should the AI represent?
Most sports AI represents a platform. It speaks about athletes without ever being accountable to one. That is exactly the shape of a trust problem: more output, less ownership.
Our answer
Trusted, licensed identities with clear provenance and human control. A fan should be able to ask who authorized this voice, what it is allowed to say and who is accountable for it — and get a straight answer.
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