We use AI tools for some of the work. Better to write that down than have you wonder. The rule underneath it: a byline means a person stands behind the piece.

Where we use it

• Copy-editing drafts a human already wrote.
• Headline options, which a person picks or rejects.
• Summarising background reading.
• Transcribing interviews, checked against the recording.
• Building this website, including most of its code.

Where we never use it

• Quotations. If someone is quoted, they said it to a person.
• Statistics, dates or sources. Numbers come with a source or they do not run.
• First-person experience. A POV: Barista dispatch is somebody’s actual shift.
• Inventing businesses, people or scenes that did not happen.
• Images of real places passed off as photographs.
• Deciding what a piece concludes.

Your submissions

We do not put your unpublished submission into a third-party AI tool. If that ever needs to change for a specific piece, we ask you first and you can say no.

We label it

If AI did more than copy-edit a dispatch, the status box on that piece says so. Think we crossed our own line? Tell us at inbox@brewser.app and it gets printed like any other correction.