How we use AI

We use AI to research faster and to check our work more thoroughly. We do not use it to replace editorial judgement. Every news article is reviewed and published by a named human editor.

News articles

1. Research. An AI system gathers facts from primary sources (central bank statements, official statistics, company filings) and credible outlets, and builds a fact sheet in which every fact has a source.
2. Drafting. A draft is written only from that fact sheet. It must cite a fact for every number, name and quote.
3. Checks. Automated checks reject invented numbers, advice language, hype and copied wording, and a separate AI review compares the draft against our standards.
4. Human review. A named editor reads, edits and decides whether to publish. The article shows the author and the editor.

Data pages

Indicator pages, market pages and the economic calendar are generated from data. Their plain-English summaries are written by fixed templates from the numbers, not by a language model.

"Why is it moving today?"

Major market pages carry a short, automatic explanation of the day's move. It works like this:

1. Facts first. Code gathers the facts: the size and timing of the move, how it compares with the asset's usual range, same-day moves in the markets that usually drive it (a map our traders reviewed), scheduled economic releases, and our own published articles.
2. A small AI model writes 60–110 words using only those numbered facts. It has no web access and cannot add information. It may only name a cause when one of those facts supports it; otherwise it says there was no single clear catalyst.
3. Automated checks confirm every number matches the facts and reject advice, predictions, hype and copied wording. If the text fails, a fixed template is shown instead.
4. Human oversight. Explanations are not reviewed one by one, but an editor can remove any of them and spot-checks a sample every week.

On quiet days, when nothing notable has happened, a fixed sentence is shown and no AI is used. Each explanation shows when it was last updated.

Images

When we have no suitable licensed photo, we may use a photorealistic image generated or enhanced with AI, inspired by news photography of the story. Every such image has the line "Some images are AI enhanced or illustrated." directly under it, and carries machine-readable AI provenance in the file and the page.

• It never depicts an event, an action or a scene that did not happen.
• Identifiable people are limited to prominent public figures, such as heads of government, ministers, central bankers, legislators and leaders of large companies, shown only in the role and setting the article reports. Anyone else cannot be identified.
• It takes a clearly different angle or composition from the photo that inspired it, and it carries no logos, watermarks or legible text. We never publish the source photo.
• Every AI image is checked against these rules before use, and an editor can replace it at any time. When nothing suitable is available, we use a data graphic.

The full rules are in our image standard.

What AI never does here

• Publish a news article without human review.
• Give investment advice or recommendations.
• Invent quotes, numbers or sources.

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