How we use AI in our writing

We build AI systems for a living. Typing our own articles by hand so we could stamp them "no machines were involved" would be an odd way to spend the afternoon. So yes, a machine helped write this. Here is what that means.

Where AI helps

• Research and pre-sorting of sources: papers, studies, primary documents. The model reads faster than we do.
• Draft passages and phrasing, against an outline that comes from us.
• Figures: charts built from numbers we supply.
• A pass for contradictions, repetition and broken metaphors. Models make ruthless editors and mediocre writers.

What people do

• Topic, thesis and position. A language model has no opinion, it has probabilities. The opinion is ours, and you can hold us to it.
• Sources: we read the papers we cite in the original and check every number against them.
• Every line goes through a substantive review. We cut, delete and rewrite, and the first draft rarely survives it.
• Release: no article publishes itself.

We write the German and the English version separately, each in its own language. Translated articles give themselves away within two sentences, and nobody enjoys reading them.

What we don't do

• No invented sources, quotes or numbers. When a model hallucinates a paper, it shows up, because we wanted to read it.
• No AI photos of people who do not exist, saying things they never said.
• No forty articles a month. We could. The internet has plenty already.

Who answers for it

Gaylord Aulke is responsible for the content of this site under section 18(2) of the German Interstate Media Treaty. The address is in the Impressum. Complaints reach a person with an address.

Why this page exists

Since August 2026, Article 50 of the EU AI Act has required disclosure for AI-generated text published to inform the public on matters of public interest. The duty falls away where a person reviews the text editorially and answers for it. Half the industry responded with badges nobody clicks and explainers about the labelling duty, presumably written with AI. The exemption covers us. We publish this anyway, because two minutes of plain description are worth more than a seal with nothing behind it.

Found an error?

Then you read more carefully than we did. Write to [email protected]. We correct it and say what was wrong.

Last updated: September 2026