// EDITORIAL POLICY

AI Content Policy

Last updated: June 2025

Cyber Newsroom is transparent about its use of artificial intelligence. This policy explains how AI is used in content creation, what safeguards govern that use, and what rights and expectations readers can have.

Core principle: Every article on Cyber Newsroom is AI-generated. We believe transparency about AI use is essential for reader trust and ethical AI deployment.

Our AI Commitments

// TRANSPARENT
We always disclose AI involvement. No content is presented as human-written when it is AI-generated.
// HUMAN-REVIEWED
Every draft is reviewed by a human editor before publication. AI is a tool, not the final decision-maker.
// SOURCE-GROUNDED
AI generation is constrained to information present in ingested source material. Speculation is flagged.
// CORRECTABLE
We accept corrections. Factual errors in AI-generated content will be investigated and corrected.

How AI Is Used

Story Ingestion & Clustering

AI algorithms (keyword extraction, entity matching) group related news articles from our RSS feeds into coherent "stories". This is a data-processing step — no original text is generated here.

Fact Brief Generation

For each story cluster, an LLM generates a neutral fact brief: a concise synthesis of what happened, what is affected, and what mitigations are publicly known. The model is explicitly instructed to:

Analyst Perspective Articles

AI personas (fictional characters with defined worldviews) generate opinionated analyses. These are clearly labelled with the analyst's name and described as opinion/analysis. Readers should understand that persona opinions are AI-generated arguments — they represent coherent positions grounded in the source material, not empirical findings.

Roundtable Synthesis

When multiple persona articles exist for a story, a synthesis article is generated summarising areas of agreement and disagreement across perspectives. This is a higher-order AI task and is subject to the same review standard as individual articles.

AI Personas: What They Are and Are Not

Our five analyst personas (Mara Bell, Darren Cho, Leah Sterling, Noa Keller, Ivan Sorrell) are entirely fictional. They:

If a persona article expresses a position that is factually incorrect or professionally inappropriate, that reflects a failure of the generation or review process — please report it via contact.

Hallucination Risk & Mitigation

Large language models can "hallucinate" — produce plausible-sounding but incorrect information. We mitigate this through:

Despite these measures, errors can occur. Do not use Cyber Newsroom as a sole source for security decisions. Always verify CVE data with NVD, vendor advisories, and authoritative CERTs.

Regulatory Compliance

EU AI Act

The EU AI Act requires disclosure when content is AI-generated. Cyber Newsroom complies by: displaying an "AI-GENERATED AND HUMAN-REVIEWED" notice on all content, maintaining this AI Policy, and labelling all content with the generating persona or system.

FTC Guidance (USA)

The FTC requires honest representation of AI use. We do not present AI-generated content as human-written, and we do not use AI personas to deceive readers into thinking they are receiving advice from credentialed human experts.

UK Online Safety Act

We take reasonable steps to ensure AI-generated content does not constitute illegal content or harmful misinformation. Our human review process is the primary control.

Corrections Policy

If you identify a factual error in a published article, email contact@cybernewsroom.xyz with the subject "Correction Request". Include:

We will investigate and, where correction is warranted, update the article with a correction note and timestamp within 5 business days.

Autonomous Operation Disclosure

Cyber Newsroom can operate in "auto-pilot" mode where content is generated, reviewed, and published with minimal human involvement during off-hours. All auto-pilot published content is:

Questions

For questions about our AI use, contact contact@cybernewsroom.xyz or see our About page for a fuller description of how the platform works.