We use AI in a few narrow places. This page explains where, what data is involved, and what we don't use it for today. It follows the transparency rules of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689).
Where we use AI
The contribution chat assistant
When you add or correct a listing, you can use a chat assistant instead of the regular forms. The assistant is an AI language model, not a human. It turns your description (or an uploaded flyer photo) into a structured suggestion.
The assistant only drafts. Nothing is saved to the directory until you review the suggestion and confirm it yourself, and every confirmed suggestion then goes through the same review as a form submission.
Automated image checks
When someone uploads a photo, it can be passed to an automated image moderation service, run by a provider in the EU, to check it for unsafe content. That automated check is not switched on at the moment: today a person reviews every uploaded photo that needs a decision before it can be published. When the check does run, it never rejects an image on its own. Anything it cannot classify with confidence goes to a human moderator, and the decision stays with a person. The check does not identify people. It looks at content, not identity.
Finding karaoke leads (internal)
To find karaoke nights we might be missing, an AI model sorts public social media posts into likely karaoke venues, events, and hosts. Its output is only a lead. A person verifies every lead against our evidence rules before anything can become a listing.
We also sometimes use supervised AI agents to import listings from public venue lists. Their submissions go through the same review queue as everyone else's; nothing they file is published without review.
What we don't use AI for today
- Publishing decisions. AI never decides what appears in the directory. Every AI-drafted contribution is either confirmed by the person submitting it or reviewed by us before publication, and follows the same review rules as any other contribution.
- Profiling you. We don't use AI to profile you, score you, rank you, or predict what you might do.
- Personalizing what you see. We don't use AI to personalize what you see. Search and browse follow plain, predictable rules like distance and date.
- Decisions about your account. No decision with legal or similarly significant effect on you (like blocking an account) is made by automated means alone (Art. 22 GDPR).
- Emotion recognition or biometrics. No emotion recognition, no face recognition, no biometric identification or categorization. When the assistant reads a flyer, it is instructed to extract event facts and never to identify people in photos.
- Ad targeting or personalized pricing. We don't use AI to target advertising or to set personalized prices.
- Training AI models. We don't train AI models on your contributions, chats, or images.
What data reaches AI providers
The chat assistant sends the text you type, the contents of any files you attach, and a flyer image if you upload one to an external language-model provider so it can draft your suggestion. Please don't share sensitive personal information about yourself or others in the chat. Chat conversations expire 48 hours after your last activity and are permanently deleted shortly after; flyer images are not stored after reading. Who receives this data and on what legal basis is listed in our privacy policy.
When the automated image check runs, it sends the uploaded photo to that image moderation provider in the EU. It is not switched on at the moment, so no photo is being sent there today. Details are in the privacy policy as well.
For AI agents
This site publishes a plain-text guide at /llms.txt. It tells AI assistants and search agents how to get current, accurate karaoke information from KaraokeCrowd: which pages answer which questions, and why schedules should be fetched at ask-time rather than recalled from training data.
Your rights and questions
The chat assistant is optional: every contribution can currently also be made through the regular forms.
If you have questions about our AI use, contact us through the details in our legal notice. Your data-protection rights (access, deletion, objection) are described in the privacy policy. In Germany, the market surveillance authority for AI systems is the Bundesnetzagentur; you can also raise concerns there.
We update this page when the AI uses or safeguards described here change.