We use AI tools to help produce The BL:UF. You have a right to know that, so here it is, up front.
Where AI helps
- Finding and triaging stories — scanning the day's news so the desk can decide what's worth your time.
- Drafting — turning verified source material into a first-draft BL:UF and context block in our format.
- Editing support — tightening, formatting, and checking for clarity.
Where the human line sits
- A person decides what we publish. AI does not get the final call on a story going live.
- A person owns accuracy. Every fact still has to trace to a primary source under our editorial standards — AI assistance does not lower that bar, and a fabricated or unsupported claim is cut whether a human or a tool wrote it.
- We do not publish AI-generated imagery as if it were a real photograph. Photographs are real photographs. If we ever use an illustration or generated image, it is presented as one.
Why we disclose this
Plenty of newsrooms use these tools and don't say so. We think that's the wrong call. The same standard we apply to everyone else — tell people what's behind the story — applies to us. If our use of AI ever affects how you should read a particular piece, we'll note it in that piece.
Questions about how we work: editor@thebluf.news.