How we use AI

We build this site to eventually let AI handle a large share of the operational work of automotive journalism — monitoring sources, clustering related coverage, extracting and checking facts, drafting articles, and flagging things that need a human's attention. We think readers deserve to know exactly where that stands, not a vague assurance either way.

What AI does today

Right now, AI-assisted automation covers the mechanical parts of gathering information: monitoring RSS feeds, detecting duplicate or related coverage of the same event, and flagging when new information conflicts with something already published. None of that involves generating the words a reader sees.

What AI does not do (yet)

No article on this site has been written by an AI model. We have not turned on automated article drafting, automated publication, or automated SEO changes — those capabilities are being built but are deliberately switched off until we have enough of a track record to trust their output (we call this progression AI Assisted → AI Supervised → AI Autonomous, and we do not skip stages).

What we will never do

• Invent a journalist, a quote, an interview, or a personal test-drive experience.
• Publish a claim without a traceable source.
• Let an AI-authored piece pass as human-written, or vice versa — every article records who (or what) wrote it.
• Give an AI system unconditional publishing rights. Every account — human or AI — operates under the same permission system, and publishing rights are granted deliberately, not by default.

If we get something wrong

We do not silently edit a published article to fix a mistake. See our corrections policy for how we handle that.