AI Disclosure
msoftnews uses generative AI throughout its editorial pipeline. We disclose this clearly because readers deserve to know how the stories they read are produced.
What is AI-assisted
- Story selection. Our ingestion worker pulls roughly a thousand items a day from public RSS feeds, clusters them by similarity, and ranks the resulting story groups by source diversity, recency, and source weight. The clustering and ranking are deterministic algorithms, not AI, but a relevance pass uses a language model to drop off-brand stories before drafting.
- Drafting. First-pass article copy is generated by xAI's Grok model from a cluster of source summaries, working from a voice guide that forbids common AI tells, requires inline source citations, and constrains the article structure.
- Imagery. The editorial illustration that heads each article is generated by xAI's image model from a prompt the language model produces. We forbid faces, recognizable people, logos, and embedded text in those images.
What is not AI
- The decision to publish is human. A draft does not go live until a human has reviewed it.
- Editorial standards, voice guidelines, and the source feed list are written and curated by a human.
- Corrections, follow-ups, and reader replies are handled by a human.
What we don't do
- We do not pass AI-generated quotes off as on-the-record statements. Every direct quote in a story is sourced from a primary article we link to.
- We do not generate fake datapoints, statistics, or names. If a number appears in a story, it came from a linked source.
- We do not use AI to imitate a named person's voice or style.
Why this matters
AI lets a small team cover a wide news beat at speed. It does not, on its own, produce reliable journalism. The combination of automated drafting and human review is a deliberate trade-off: the worker handles the throughput, the editor handles the truth.
If you spot a hallucination — a fact that looks made up — please send it to corrections@msoftnews.com and we'll fix it.