Ars Technica's Newsroom AI Policy: Guidelines for Ethical AI Use in Journalism
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Summary
Ars Technica outlines its AI policy for newsroom operations, prohibiting the use of AI tools to generate, extract, or summarize material that is then attributed to named sources. The policy requires that all attributed statements, positions, or quotes come from direct engagement with interviews, transcripts, published statements, or documents reviewed by reporters. The publication does not publish claims based solely on AI-generated summaries and forbids reporters from representing material as 'reviewed' unless they have examined it directly.
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We don't publish claims based solely on AI-generated summaries, and reporters may not represent any material as 'reviewed' unless they have examined it directly.
When we attribute a statement, a position, or a quote to a named source, that material comes from direct engagement with interviews, transcripts, published statements, or documents reviewed by the reporter.
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