AI Now Powers 47% of Top Crypto News—Here’s Why It Matters

Robots are rewriting the rules of crypto journalism—and nobody noticed until now.

### The Algorithmic Newsroom Takeover

Forget human reporters chasing scoops. Nearly half of major cryptocurrency coverage now gets churned out by AI systems working 24/7. No coffee breaks, no press conferences—just cold, hard data analysis turned into headlines at hyperspeed.

### Quantity Over Quality?

The machines dominate volume, but can they spot the next FTX before it collapses? (Spoiler: Neither could most human 'experts' during the last bull run.)

### The Silver Lining for Crypto

AI doesn't care about FUD or moon predictions. It just reports the numbers—which might be the most honest thing to happen to crypto media since Satoshi disappeared.

Wall Street analysts hate this one trick: decentralized networks don't need their hot takes when algorithms deliver facts faster than Bloomberg terminals can refresh.

Notably, these publications were selected because of their explicit disclosure policies on AI use. Chainstory acknowledged that the real numbers, both among these five news sites and across the broader crypto news industry, may be higher or lower.

Audiences can tell when something’s AI-generated

Chainstory reached out to several editors about their policies on AI. One of them was our very own crypto.news editor Jayson Derrick. He told Chainstory there is a place for AI in the newsroom, but that writing entire articles with AI misses the point of the technology.

“AI can be a fantastic research assistant and an awful storyteller. It’s incredibly helpful for accelerating background tasks like summarizing long research reports, extracting key points from filings, or finding stats to justify a claim. But when it comes to producing actual content, the end result is poor.”

Derrick explained that, for now, AI can’t replicate a genuine human voice. Instead, articles written by AI often sound robotic, which can make them feel disingenuous to readers. He said:

“I believe audiences can tell when something wasn’t written by a real person, whether it’s labeled or not.”

Commenting on the report, Afik Rechler, Co-CEO of Chainstory, stated:

“AI is an integral part of crypto journalism in one way or another, everyone uses it nowadays. But it hasn’t replaced human reporting. It can’t. Not at this stage. LLMs can’t handle stories that require depth, deeper context, nuances, etc. Using AI is not necessarily a bad thing. But there needs to be some sort of balance to preserve trust.”