We use AI to enhance reporting, not replace journalists. Editors and reporters are responsible for judgment, accuracy, and ethics.
How we use AI
- Research assist: backgrounders, timelines, transcript clean up, document search.
- Verification assist: find primary sources, surface conflicts, translate documents for review by a bilingual editor.
- Storycraft assist: draft nut graphs, FAQs, alt text, SEO snippets for editor revision.
- Accessibility: create audio versions and captions from approved text.
What we never do
- Publish unedited AI output.
- Use AI to fabricate sources, quotes, images, or audio.
- Upload private or sensitive data into tools without permission and redaction.
- Use synthetic images to depict real news events.
Disclosure
- When AI materially assists a story, we add a one line note: Reporting for this story used AI to organize public records and transcripts; editors verified all facts against primary sources.
- For translation: AI assisted translation was used; quotes were reviewed by a bilingual editor.
- For audio: This article’s audio was generated using text to speech technology and edited by our staff.
Corrections
- If an error is introduced through AI assistance, our correction will state that plainly and show the fix.
Data and copyright
- We attribute data to primary sources and respect licenses. We do not train models on proprietary or illegal datasets.
Contact
- Questions about this policy: editor@cleobserver.com
