TRANSPARENCY
AI & Automation Policy
Automation assists the newsroom; it does not create evidence or grant permission to reuse another publisher's work.
How AI is used
AI may turn approved evidence into a concise English draft and significance note. It is instructed to use only supplied facts and is followed by deterministic checks.
What AI cannot do
It cannot invent quotations, figures, motives or context. Discovery-only publisher text is not supplied to the model. Failed validation sends a story to review rather than publication.
Disclosure
THELAST.NEWS identifies its briefs as AI-assisted and attributes the organizational editorial system rather than a fictional person.