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AI Disclosure

We use large language models to draft articles. This page explains exactly what they do, what humans do, and where the boundaries are.

What the AI does

  • Reads a curated primary source (linked at the top of every article).
  • Rewrites the source into Bionicland's house voice — dense, technical, scannable.
  • Proposes 2–4 inline citations to authoritative sources from a hand-maintained allowlist.
  • Generates a cover image and a short excerpt.

What humans do

  • Maintain the source allowlist and the ingestion queue.
  • Review every published article and can edit, retract, or attach an editor's note.
  • Author the Wetware Override — a pinned, human-written commentary block that appears at the top of articles when an editor wants to add context, dissent, or insider perspective the source didn't have.
  • Handle every correction request (see Corrections).

Models in rotation

Synthesis runs on frontier large language models served via API (currently including Google Gemini 2.5 Pro). The specific model mix changes as new releases become available; we choose for factual fidelity and instruction-following, not for cost. Cover images are generated via image-generation models in the same gateway.

Citation allowlist

The pipeline can only insert links to domains on a hand-maintained allowlist. Anything outside the list is dropped silently. The allowlist includes:

  • Wire services and major newspapers: Reuters, AP, Bloomberg, FT, WSJ, NYT, Washington Post, The Economist.
  • Trade press: The Verge, Ars Technica, Wired, IEEE Spectrum, MIT Technology Review.
  • Scientific publishers: Nature, Science, arXiv, ACM, IEEE.
  • First-party corporate engineering and research: tesla.com, openai.com, deepmind.google, research.google, ai.meta.com, developer.nvidia.com, microsoft.com, apple.com, anthropic.com, huggingface.co, github.blog, and others.
  • All .gov and .edu domains.

Tabloids, content farms, and ideologically-motivated aggregators are explicitly blocklisted.

What the AI does not do

  • It does not invent sources or URLs.
  • It does not write the Wetware Override block — that is always a human editor.
  • It does not handle reader email, corrections, or legal notices.
  • It does not pick which stories run — editors curate the source queue.

Reader controls

Spot something the pipeline got wrong? Write to compliance@bionicland.com. Full process on the Corrections page.

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