Our Use of AI
AI can help explain a story. It must never invent the facts.
JournalBits may use generative AI to assist with early drafting, summarization, reading-level adaptation, organization and language editing. AI-generated wording is not itself evidence.
What we will not do
We will not knowingly present fabricated interviews, quotes, imagery or staff biographies as real. We will not invent reporting history or use AI content to imitate an individual journalist without clear disclosure.
Source verification
Our initial explainers link to primary sources. Before publishing consequential factual claims, editors must confirm their accuracy. When an article is AI-assisted, the byline or disclosure should make that clear. The publication does not claim its initial explainers are firsthand reporting.
Images and synthetic media
Illustrative graphics are distinguishable from documentary photography. Synthetic imagery depicting real events must be clearly labeled and must not be used to mislead readers.
Children's content
Young JournalBits uses AI-assisted reading-level adaptations of the same source-backed facts, without altering the evidence or inserting political persuasion.