AI Use Policy

Last updated: May 9, 2026

BlockAI News is a publication about artificial intelligence. We would be hypocrites to pretend we don’t use it. We do — for research, drafting assistance, source discovery, summarization, translation, and cover illustration. This policy describes exactly where AI is involved in our work, where it isn’t, and the lines we don’t cross.

How We Use AI

We use AI tools — primarily Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google’s Imagen — at four points in our editorial workflow:

• Research and discovery. We use AI-assisted tools to help monitor and review announcements, regulatory filings, GitHub repositories, public social media posts, and on-chain data sources for potential stories.
• Drafting assistance. AI helps draft article structures, condense long source documents, and surface candidate angles. Every draft is read, edited, and signed off by a human editor before publication.
• Summarization and translation. TL;DR sections, key-takeaway bullets, and translations of non-English source material are AI-assisted, then verified against the original.
• Cover illustrations. News, Editor’s Pick, and Learn covers are generated with Google Imagen as editorial illustrations. They are not photographs and are not represented as evidence.

Where Humans Are Always in Charge

AI does not replace editorial judgment at BlockAI News. Every article is reviewed by a human editor. Some News articles may carry an institutional byline, but editorial responsibility remains with our Editor-in-Chief, Jason Lee. Specifically:

• Editorial decisions — what we cover, what we ignore, and how a story is framed — are made by humans.
• Fact verification — every claim of fact is checked by a human editor against a primary or independently reliable source. AI is not a source. See our Fact-Checking Policy.
• Quotes — verified against the original recording, transcript, or post by a human. We do not generate or paraphrase quotes inside quotation marks.
• Sources and links — external links used as sources are opened and verified by a human before publication. We do not publish AI-suggested URLs without checking them.
• Corrections and retractions — handled by humans, not automated.

What We Never Do

• We never publish AI-generated text presented as a quote from a real person.
• We never publish AI-fabricated sources, citations, or URLs. If our verification process catches a fabricated link, the entire article is held until the source is replaced or removed.
• We never publish AI-generated star ratings, “Editor Scores,” or aggregate review numbers without a documented human methodology.
• We never use AI to impersonate a real author. Human authors are real people, and institutional bylines are accountable to a named editor.
• We never use AI to generate photorealistic images of real people, real events, or real on-chain activity in a way that could be mistaken for documentation.

Cover Images and Illustrations

Unless otherwise credited, article covers on BlockAI News are AI-generated editorial illustrations. They are stylized, labeled with our brand strip, and not intended to represent photographic reality. We do not use AI to create images of identifiable people in scenarios that did not occur, and we do not generate fake screenshots, fake terminal output, or fake on-chain transaction visualizations.

Photographs of real people (such as our masthead headshots) are real photographs. We do not use AI-generated headshots to represent real staff members, contributors, or interview subjects.

When We Disclose

Where an article relies on AI for more than routine research and drafting assistance — for example, an analysis built on AI-classified on-chain data, or a translation of a long-form non-English document — we say so in the article itself.

Routine drafting assistance is not separately disclosed on each article, because it is the default across our newsroom. This entire policy serves as that disclosure.

Our Bias

Because we cover AI as a beat, our editors hold opinions about specific models, labs, and products. We disclose financial relationships and conflicts of interest as described in our Editorial Policy. We do not accept payment to use a particular AI tool, model, or vendor in our workflow.

Updates to This Policy

AI capabilities change quickly. We will update this policy as our practices evolve. Material changes will be noted at the top of this page with a dated entry.

Questions or concerns about how we use AI? Email jason@blockainews.com.