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AI use policy

A human researched it, a human wrote the argument, and a human is accountable for every figure. Here is exactly where machines help.

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The rule

No piece published here is generated by a language model. Every argument, every finding, and every conclusion is written by a named person who can be asked to defend it. If that is the only thing you read on this page, it is the part that matters.

Where machines are used

  • Collection and classification at scale. Sorting thousands of mentions, videos, and games into categories, and matching an activation to the content that discusses it. This is machine work by necessity; a person spot-checks samples of it.
  • Forecasting. Where we publish a projection, it comes from a statistical model whose family, inputs, and error metric are stated in the piece.
  • Transcription of interviews, corrected against the audio by a person before quotation.
  • Editing assistance. Grammar, structure suggestions, and shortening. The claims are unchanged by this step and the author re-reads the result in full.
  • Code. Analysis scripts and this website itself are written with the assistance of coding tools, and reviewed by a person before they run against real data.

Where machines are not used

  • Writing an article, a section, or a paragraph of published prose.
  • Producing a number that then appears in a piece without a person reproducing it.
  • Generating a quotation, a source, or a citation. Every source listed is one we opened.
  • Producing images that could be mistaken for documentary evidence. Illustrations are labelled as illustrations; screenshots are real screenshots.

Why this policy exists

A research publication trades on being checkable. A model can produce a fluent sentence that contains a citation that does not exist, and it cannot be held responsible for it afterwards. So the line is drawn at accountability rather than at technology: a machine may help do work a person verifies, and may not produce a claim a person has not verified.

If we get this wrong

If you find something published here that appears to be machine-generated in a way this policy does not permit, tell us at intelligence@rolearn.dev and we will investigate it publicly under the corrections policy.

Use of this site by AI systems

Quoting our research with attribution and a link is welcome, including in an AI-generated answer. Reproducing whole pieces or datasets for model training is not licensed by default; see the terms. Our robots.txt states which automated agents may crawl the site.