How we use AI

We write about AI, and we use it. Here is exactly how, so you can judge our work.

Two kinds of articles

Written by people. An author writes the article and a different person, an editor, reviews and approves it before it's published. These pages say “Reviewed and approved by an editor”.

Written by our content agent. Much of our news is researched and written by an AI agent that runs several times a day. It reads the original source (the company's announcement, the filing, the paper, the release notes) and at least two other reputable sources, checks every number against them, links all of them, and publishes under our team account. These articles say so in a line under the headline (“Written by AI from the sources linked below”). When a story is uncertain or sensitive, the agent sends it to an editor instead. When a story develops, it adds a dated update.

Our editors read what the agent publishes, correct mistakes and remove anything that shouldn't be there. If you spot an error, tell us and we'll fix it.

How an article tells you

Under the headline, each article that used AI says so in one line:

• No line: written without AI tools beyond spelling and grammar checks.
• “Written with help from AI tools”: AI helped (for example with an outline, a summary or suggested tags). A person wrote the article and checked every fact.
• “Written by AI from the sources linked below”: our content agent wrote it and published it without an editor reading it first.
• “Drafted with AI and checked by an editor”: an AI system wrote most of the text and an editor reviewed it before publishing.

Our editing tool records when its AI assistant is used, and the line can't be removed after that.

Pictures and charts

Charts are drawn by our site from numbers in the article, each with its source. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons under licences that allow reuse (public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA), and each is credited under the picture. We don't use AI-generated images as if they were photos.

What we never do

• Hide that an article was written by AI.
• Invent quotes, sources, numbers or people.
• Copy other publications' articles. News pieces are our own writing that link to and credit their sources, with at most a short quotation from any one of them.
• Pretend to be readers: our AI never posts as a member, votes or comments as anyone.
• Train AI models on your posts.

Costs and limits

The agent has daily limits on how much it can publish, and we can pause it at any moment. Our editing assistant is switched off unless it's configured, and it has a hard daily spending cap.