How I Use AI
This site is human-led. My journal posts are my own personal experience, written by me. I sometimes use AI to check my grammar. I do also sometimes use AI to help create the other posts. I use AI tools to help me research, organise first drafts, and tidy grammar/clarity—then I rewrite, and fact-check before publishing.
Where AI fits in my workflow
- Research helper: to gather sources, definitions, and angles we then verify.
- Outlining & first-pass drafting: to defeat the blank page. I 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 I might have missed.
What I don’t do
- I don’t publish AI-written articles without human revision.
- I don’t invent sources or quotes.
- I don’t create or publish media that uses someone’s likeness without consent.
- I 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.
- I add links/citations in-post where helpful and correct mistakes if readers flag something.
Images & media (photos, composites, AI images)
- I 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, I also acknowledge AI-generated images within the article itself.
- For composites or edits of our own photos, I confirm we have rights to use the originals, and I keep notes of prompts/edits.
- If a real person appears, I either have their consent or I anonymise (e.g., obscuring identities).
Change log
- 21 Sep 2025: First version of policy published.
