AI Disclosure Policy
Last updated: April 2026
The Short Version
The Pulse Gazette uses AI tools — including large language models, automated research assistants, and AI-assisted fact-checking — in its editorial workflow. Every article is reviewed, fact-checked, and edited by human staff before publication. We are transparent about this because we believe readers have the right to know how the journalism they read is produced.
How We Use AI
Our newsroom uses AI tools for several tasks:
- Research assistance. Scanning primary sources (research papers, press releases, regulatory filings, company blogs) to identify stories worth covering and aggregate relevant context.
- First-draft writing. Generating an initial draft based on research, source material, and editor direction. Drafts are treated as raw material, not finished work.
- Fact-checking. Cross-referencing specific claims against our internal database and flagging unsourced or suspicious statements for human review.
- Editorial quality checks. Catching banned clichés, duplicated sentences, broken links, and structural issues before publication.
- Topic selection. Prioritizing which stories to cover based on relevance, originality, and our audience's interests.
What Human Editors Do
Every published article passes through human review before it goes live:
- Verifying factual claims against named primary sources
- Confirming that cited numbers come from real, defensible sources (we reject "per a recent report" without attribution)
- Rewriting weak openings, flat analysis, and boilerplate framing
- Confirming no real person is mis-attributed to a job title, paper, or quote
- Final editorial sign-off on publication
Our fact-check pipeline is designed to catch the common failure modes of AI-assisted journalism: hallucinated quotes, fabricated citations, stale training data about real people's current roles, and invented statistics. When our systems flag a claim as suspicious, the article is either corrected or the claim is removed.
What We Do NOT Do
- We do not publish AI-generated content without human review.
- We do not invent quotes and attribute them to real people.
- We do not fabricate statistics or cite reports that do not exist.
- We do not attribute articles to generic "staff" bylines when identifiable human editors reviewed the work — every article has a named byline.
- We do not rewrite press releases and present them as original reporting.
Bylines and Accountability
Every article on The Pulse Gazette carries a named byline from our editorial team. The byline identifies the human editor responsible for the final version of the article — not the AI tool used during drafting. Corrections requests should be directed to the byline author or contact@thepulsegazette.com.
Why We Disclose
Transparency about AI use is better for readers than concealment. Google's E-E-A-T guidelines reward clear disclosure; our readers have told us they prefer honesty about workflow; and AI-assisted journalism is going to be the industry norm within a few years, whether outlets admit it now or not. We would rather be early to transparent disclosure than caught hiding it.
Our AI Tools
As of April 2026, The Pulse Gazette's editorial workflow uses local open-weight language models (primarily Qwen-family models) running on self-hosted infrastructure. We do not send article drafts to third-party LLM APIs. Research-assistance tools may include the standard search and retrieval APIs offered by major AI providers. This stack may change over time; we will update this disclosure when it does.
Reporting Errors
If you find a factual error, a mis-attributed quote, a fabricated statistic, or any AI-specific failure in one of our articles, please email contact@thepulsegazette.com. We respond to every correction request and publish substantive corrections at the top of the affected article. See our Corrections Policy for details.