The three kinds
- Fake newspaper makers. Templates for birthday jokes and pranks. Harmless as long as the output is never mistaken for news; useless for a newsroom.
- General AI writers. Tools that produce fluent text from a prompt. They write about anything, which is the problem: they will also write about things that did not happen. Without sources attached, an editor has nothing to check.
- Draft suppliers for newsrooms. Services that prepare material around a defined brief from collected sources, deliver it with the sources and leave the publication decision to the editor.
What a publishable draft needs
- Sources & checks attached to the item, not a promise that checks happened somewhere.
- A clear statement of what was automated, so the newsroom can label the material as its jurisdiction requires.
- Images with rights information.
- A way to receive corrections after delivery.
- A licence that says what you may edit, where you may publish and whether attribution is required.
What to avoid regardless of the tool
Do not publish a text that claims something about a named person unless a human has verified it against a source. Do not let any tool publish directly to the site. Do not treat fluency as accuracy: the more confident the prose, the more carefully it should be read.
How this works in Doxx
Doxx is the third kind. It does not write your news; it prepares drafts around a Stream and delivers them for editorial review with sources & checks and image suggestions. Automated generation is used and disclosed. The newsroom edits, adds reporting, rejects or publishes under its own name, with attribution rules set out in the content licence.
Compare a Doxx draft with its sources against any generator's output on the same topic.