AI-Assisted Content Policy

ByteOrbital is built around AI assistance, and we think you are entitled to know exactly how. This page explains what AI does here, what people do, and how we label the result.

What AI does

• Monitoring and discovery: software watches our catalogue of sources and flags new announcements, papers and releases.
• Research: AI gathers background from those sources, compares details and highlights conflicts between them.
• Drafting: AI writes first drafts in our house style from the research it has gathered.
• Checking: automated passes test drafts for factual consistency against the sources, repeated wording, unsupported claims and tone.
• Images: AI can generate illustrations for articles (see below).
• Newsletters and summaries: AI can condense our own coverage into digests that link back to the full articles.

What people do

Humans set the editorial rules, choose and maintain the source list, and review the output. By default ByteOrbital runs in manual approval mode: an editor reads and approves each article before it is published. Editors can edit, hold or reject any draft. People also handle corrections, complaints and takedown requests.

If we ever allow some content to publish automatically, we will state which categories and what checks apply, and update this page first.

Bylines and credit

We never credit automated writing to a human journalist. An article carries one of two bylines:

• ByteOrbital Newsroom (AI-assisted): drafted by our AI engine, with or without light review.
• The named human editor who reviewed and approved that specific article.

A named editor on a piece means they have reviewed it. It does not mean they wrote every word, and we say "AI-assisted" wherever AI drafted the text. Every article also carries a disclosure line describing the level of AI involvement.

AI-generated images

Illustrations we generate with AI are labelled as AI-generated, in a caption or image credit, on the article and anywhere the image is shared by us. We do not use AI images to depict real events, real people or real products in a way that could be mistaken for a photograph. Where we show a real product, the image comes from the manufacturer, a licensed source or our own photography, and is credited.

Limits and honesty about errors

AI makes mistakes: it can misread a source, misstate a number or sound more certain than the evidence allows. That is why we ground drafts in cited sources, run checks and keep humans in the loop. It will not catch everything. If you spot an error, tell us and see our corrections policy.

Data and privacy

We use AI services to process public source material and our own drafts. We do not feed reader personal data into article-writing systems.

Questions

See our editorial policy, or write to us through the contact page.