How We Use AI
This site is human-led. Our journal posts are our own personal experience, written by us. We do sometimes use AI to help create the other posts. We use AI tools to help us research, organise first drafts, and tidy grammar/clarity—then we rewrite, and fact-check before publishing.
Where AI fits in our workflow
- Research helper: to gather sources, definitions, and angles we then verify.
- Outlining & first-pass drafting: to defeat the blank page. We always revise in our own voice.
- Editing for clarity & plain English: to spot clunky phrasing or repetition.
- Idea testing: to surface counter-arguments or things we might have missed.
What we don’t do
- We don’t publish AI-written articles without human revision.
- We don’t invent sources or quotes.
- We don’t create or publish media that uses someone’s likeness without consent.
- We don’t include third-party brands/characters/logos in generated images.
Fact-checking & sources
- Statistics and clinical definitions are double-checked against reputable sources before publishing.
- We add links/citations in-post where helpful and correct mistakes if readers flag something.
Images & media (photos, composites, AI images)
- We label media that is AI-generated or AI-edited in the alt text field so that screen readers, search engines, and accessibility tools can identify it.
- Where appropriate, we also acknowledge AI-generated images within the article itself.
- For composites or edits of our own photos, we confirm we have rights to use the originals, and we keep notes of prompts/edits.
- If a real person appears, we either have their consent or we anonymise (e.g., obscuring identities).
Change log
- 21 Sep 2025: First version of policy published.
