--- title: "How We Use AI" description: "What AI tools do on this site, what people do, the safeguards between a draft and a published page, and what the tools never do." url: https://attentionmachine.org/en/about/how-we-use-ai/ lang: en updated: 2026-10-25 license: "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)" --- # How We Use AI This site is made with AI tools, and the note at the foot of every page says so. This page sets out what the tools do, what people do, and what stands between a draft and a published page. ## What the tools do **Drafting.** AI tools draft and edit the pages, working from the project's research notes and from a person's instructions about what a page should say. **Translating.** They draft every translated page from the English, keeping its structure, its numbers, its links and its sources. A translated draft is not a published page: it waits for a native speaker. **Researching.** They find and read sources — studies, official reports, court rulings, national laws, the help lines a country's readers may need. For each country an edition serves, the research is written up with its sources, and a second AI model re-opens each source to check that the fact is really there. **Checking.** They review one another's work. A translation is read beside the English by a different model from the one that drafted it, for meaning, hedges, register and terms. The sources behind the [claim ledger](https://attentionmachine.org/en/about/claims/) were re-opened the same way, claim by claim, and the ledger records what was found. ## What people do **A person decides.** When a choice comes up — a wording, a fact a country's edition might add, which language comes next — the tools set it out with the options, what each one costs and a recommendation, and a person answers. The tools carry out the answer. **A person reads the English.** A page a person has read against its sources carries the date of that reading in its footer; a page without that date has not had that reading yet. **A native speaker reviews every translation**, page by page, on this site, through a private link of their own. Each verdict is recorded with the reviewer's name — or a pseudonym, where reading this site is a risk — and the time. **A person approves each local addition** — a national law, a help line, a local case — one at a time, before it goes on a published page. A person is responsible for what is published. ## The safeguards **The review gate.** A translated page goes live only when a person adds it to a list in the site's code, after a native speaker has reviewed it. The rules the tools work under forbid them to edit that list. Until then the draft carries a notice saying so, and search engines are asked not to index it. The one exception is an edition published while its volunteer reviewers are still reading it: every page of it says so in a bar at the top, and none claims a native speaker's review. **A second reader.** A translation, a research dossier or a change to the checks is read by a second model, never by the one that wrote it — and then by people: a native speaker for a translation, a person for the English, page by page. **The automated checks.** Every change runs through automated checks before it can reach the site, and nothing is merged into the site except a change that passed. Among other things, they compare every translation's structure, numbers, links and sources with the English it was made from, flag a translation whose English has changed since, and fail any page without the AI note in its own language. **Sources a reader can open.** Every factual claim links to its source, and the [claim ledger](https://attentionmachine.org/en/about/claims/) records how each one that carries a number, a date, a named study or a quotation was checked. ## What the tools never do **They do not publish a translation.** Only a person does, by listing it, after the native review. **They do not decide.** An open question goes to a person, written out in full. A choice made in passing by a tool is a mistake to correct, not a decision. **They do not change the site on their own initiative.** Every change starts from a person's instruction, is recorded with its reason, and reaches the site only through the automated checks. **They do not coin words.** A technical term with no official translation stays in English until a person decides otherwise. **They are not a source.** No fact on this site is sourced to what an AI tool said. The sources are the documents themselves, and the page links to them. ## Why the note is on every page Since 2 August 2026, Article 50(4) of the EU AI Act has required whoever publishes AI-generated text meant to inform the public on matters of public interest to disclose it — unless the text has been through human review or editorial control and someone holds editorial responsibility for it (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689)[^src-eu-ai-act-2024]. The [AI Act page](https://attentionmachine.org/en/laws/ai-act/) explains the provision. This site shows the note on every page whatever review the page has had: a site that explains how platforms are designed should say how it is made. ## Mistakes AI tools make mistakes, and so do people. The safeguards above catch many of them; some still get through. When we find one, or a reader tells us about one, we correct it and log it on the [corrections page](https://attentionmachine.org/en/about/corrections/). [Tell us](https://attentionmachine.org/en/contact/?reason=corrections) if you spot one. ## Check it yourself The rules the AI tools work under are summarised on this page. Every change made to the site is listed, with its date, in the [change log](https://attentionmachine.org/en/about/corrections/#change-log) on the Corrections page, below the log of every factual correction. ## Sources [^src-eu-ai-act-2024]: [Regulation (EU) 2024/1689](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj) (the AI Act), Article 50(4), applicable from 2 August 2026; [European Commission — transparency obligations under Article 50 of the AI Act](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/faqs/transparency-obligations-under-article-50-ai-act). [← About](https://attentionmachine.org/en/about/)\ [How We Communicate →](https://attentionmachine.org/en/about/how-we-communicate/)\ [The claim ledger →](https://attentionmachine.org/en/about/claims/)\ [Corrections →](https://attentionmachine.org/en/about/corrections/) --- Some content on this site was created with the assistance of AI tools and may contain errors. [How we use AI →](https://attentionmachine.org/en/about/how-we-use-ai/)