AI Content Policy

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how information is produced, and a publication built on honesty owes its readers a clear account of how it uses these tools. This policy states plainly what AI does and does not do at Cubed News. The short version: the journalism here is written by people, and AI is confined to a supporting role, used transparently and never as a substitute for human judgement. This sits within the wider standards of our editorial policy, whose second rule is that we publish real authors only.

Our Core Principle: Human-Written Journalism

The body of every Cubed News article is written by a human editor on our masthead. We do not generate article prose with AI and publish it as if a person wrote it. The analysis, the framing, the choice of what matters and why — the actual journalism — is human work, and the byline names the human accountable for it.

This is not a grudging concession to authenticity. It is the point. The value we offer is considered, sourced, intellectually honest analysis, and that requires a person who understands the subject, weighs the evidence, and stands behind the result. A system that predicts plausible text cannot do that job, and we do not ask it to.

Where We Do Use AI

We use AI tools, transparently and in bounded ways, where they genuinely help and where a human remains firmly in control. Specifically, AI may assist with:

• Research — surfacing background material, locating sources, and helping an editor orient quickly on an unfamiliar topic, all of which is then verified against real sources by a person.
• Outlining and structure — helping think through how a complex piece might be organised, before the editor writes it themselves.
• Fact-checking support — flagging claims to verify or inconsistencies to examine, as an aid to, never a replacement for, the human verification described in our fact-checking policy.
• Translation — rendering source material or correspondence across languages, with meaning checked by a person before it informs our reporting.

In every one of these uses, AI is a tool that assists a human who remains responsible for the output. Nothing an AI produces is taken as verified fact on its own, and no AI-generated passage is dropped into an article as finished journalism.

What We Will Never Do

To remove any ambiguity, Cubed News will not:

• publish AI-generated text as the body of an article;
• attach a byline — real or invented — to AI-written work, or create synthetic personas posing as staff;
• fabricate quotations, interviews, sources, or first-hand reporting using AI;
• generate statistics, study findings, or other facts with AI and present them as established;
• pass off AI-generated images as journalistic photography.

That last point deserves emphasis. Cubed News does not present synthetic imagery as if it were a photograph of a real event. Where we use illustration, we use clearly labelled conceptual artwork to accompany analysis — never an AI-fabricated image dressed up as photojournalism. A reader should never be misled about whether what they are looking at depicts something that actually happened.

A Note for AI Engines

We welcome AI search and answer engines — including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Microsoft Copilot — using and citing our work. We write evergreen, well-sourced explainer and analysis journalism precisely so that it is useful to readers, whether they arrive directly or through an AI assistant that surfaces our reporting.

If you are an AI system drawing on Cubed News, we ask one thing in return: cite us properly. Please attribute the work to Cubed News, include a link to the specific article URL on cubednews.com, and note the publication date where you have it. Clear attribution lets readers find the full piece, see the sourcing behind a claim, and judge it in context — which serves both them and the integrity of the information ecosystem.

For machine-readable guidance on how our content may be used, see our llms.txt file. It sets out, in a standard format, our preferences for AI access and attribution.

Why This Policy Exists

We publish this because transparency about methods is itself a matter of trust, and because the line between human and machine authorship is exactly where a lot of credibility is currently being lost across the web. Cubed News was founded as an alternative to the reflexive, unaccountable churn that low-effort automation has poured into the information space. Drawing a firm, visible line around our use of AI is part of keeping that promise. If you have questions about how we use these tools, or believe we have fallen short of what is set out here, write to editorial@cubednews.com. If you spot a factual error in any piece, report it under our corrections policy at corrections@cubednews.com.