AI Use Policy

The Short Version

AI tools assist with drafting and research on this site. They do not decide what gets published. Every page passes human editorial review, source verification, jurisdiction checks, and our publication checklist before it appears publicly. We do not claim all content is written entirely by humans.

What AI Helps With

• Drafting: producing first drafts of articles, guides, and explanations in plain language
• Research assistance: locating potentially relevant government pages, court resources, and official documents for the editorial team to evaluate
• Organization: structuring topics, summarizing long documents for internal review, and formatting content for the site

What AI Does Not Do

• Decide publication. Nothing is published by AI alone. Content moves through our editorial pipeline — research, drafting, source verification, editorial review, legal review where applicable, and SEO QA — as described in our editorial policy.
• Invent sources. AI-generated citations are never accepted at face value. Every factual and legal claim must be verified against a real, checkable source before publication. We never fabricate sources, statistics, quotes, or credentials.
• Provide legal advice. AI output is general informational material, reviewed and corrected by the team. Nothing on the site is legal advice; see our legal disclaimer.

Quality Control for AI-Assisted Content

Before any AI-assisted page is published, it must pass:

1. Source verification — claims checked against authoritative sources (government sites, courts, agencies, professional organizations)
2. Factual review — dates, agency names, program details, and phone numbers confirmed
3. Jurisdiction check — federal and state information kept explicitly separate; state content attributed to the correct state
4. Originality check — content must be substantially original, not copied; nothing presented as an “AI detector” score
5. Editorial review — clarity, structure, plain language, senior-friendly readability
6. SEO QA — metadata, headings, internal links, and publication gates

If AI-assisted content fails any check, it is revised or rejected — it is not published “close enough.”

Corrections and Accountability

If AI-assisted content contains an error that slips through, it is treated like any other error: report it through our corrections page or the “Suggest a correction” option on the article, and it goes through the standard correction workflow — report, review, verify, correct, publish, record change.

Questions

To ask about how a particular page was produced, contact us.