AI policy

Anawords uses AI tools, including Claude by Anthropic, to help with research and first drafts.

What AI does

• Finds official sources and coverage of a story.
• Suggests a first draft in plain language.
• Checks drafted sentences against the saved sources.

What a human does

• Chooses which stories to cover.
• Sets the rules every story must meet: research note first, every fact sourced and labelled.
• Approves the story before it is published, and approves every update.
• Checks facts line by line where the story says "Fact-checked by".

What AI never does

• Publish on its own.
• Invent numbers, quotes or sources.
• Create fake photos of real people or events.

Images

Most featured images are Anawords graphics built from the confirmed facts in the story. If we ever use an AI-generated image, it is labelled "AI-generated".

When AI checks the sources

Some stories are source-checked by our AI tools, sentence by sentence, and then approved for publication by the editor without a separate line-by-line human check. Those stories say so on the page: they show "Source-checked by AI" and "Approved by" instead of "Fact-checked by". We never label an AI check as a human one.