AI disclosure

Where AI is used

• Translation. Our English articles are translated into nine additional languages (Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian) with assistance from large language models. Each translation is reviewed by a human editor before publication, prioritising tone and the accuracy of factual claims over literal word-for-word fidelity.
• Light copy editing. AI tools help our editors catch typos, grammar slips, and clunky sentences in English drafts. The substantive editing — what stays in, what comes out, how a claim is framed — is done by a human.
• Research assistance. AI tools are sometimes used to surface candidate sources or summarise long papers. Any source that ends up in an article is independently verified by a human against the original publication.

Where AI is not used

• Original article drafting. The first English draft of every article is written by a human writer working from an assembled bibliography. AI is not used to generate the body of our articles.
• Source citations. Citations are added by a human editor against primary sources. We do not allow AI-generated citations into our articles, because hallucinated references are one of the well-documented failure modes of current language models.
• Editorial judgement. Decisions about what to cover, how to frame contested findings, and what to leave out are made by our editorial team.

Why we're telling you this

Most sites that use AI tools don't say so. We think that's a mistake. Readers have a right to know how the content they're reading was produced, and editorial integrity requires that publications be honest about their workflow, not just about their conclusions.

If we ever discover that an AI-assisted step has introduced an error — a hallucinated source, a mistranslation that changes the meaning of a sentence, a copy edit that altered a claim — we treat that error like any other and log it on our corrections page.

Questions or concerns

If you spot a sentence that reads as machine-generated, a translation that feels off, or a citation that doesn't check out, please email hello@attractionlaboratory.com. We treat that kind of email as a gift.