AI Use Disclosure
We use AI tools the same way we use any other tool in the process: to help us work faster, never to replace the judgment or verification a human is responsible for. Here's specifically where it is and isn't involved.
Where AI is involved
We use AI assistance for research legwork — summarizing documentation, surfacing candidate sources, and drafting structure — and occasionally for a first-pass draft of a section, the same way a writer might use a rough outline. None of that draft output is published as-is.
Where it isn't
We don't publish AI-generated claims, statistics, or quotes without independently verifying them against a real, named source. We don't use AI to fabricate first-hand experience with a tool we haven't actually used — the About page's "used, not just researched" standard applies regardless of what helped produce the draft. Comments and community replies on this site are from real readers, not AI-generated engagement.
A human verifies every fact
Every named source and every statistic in a published article has been checked by a person against the original, before publish — not taken on an AI tool's word.
A human is accountable
Whatever assisted in producing a draft, a person reviewed, edited, and takes responsibility for what actually publishes under our byline.
We'll say so when it matters
If an image, chart, or similar asset in an article was AI-generated, that's labeled in the article itself — the same transparency standard we already apply to affiliate links and sponsorships.
Questions or concerns
If something we've published reads like it skipped this process, tell us — the contact page reaches a real person, and if we got something wrong, it goes in the corrections log.