Western Standard AI Guidelines

AI is a new and evolving technology. These guidelines will be updated and publicly disclosed as any changes are made.

• Use of AI by Western Standard New Media Corp. must be publicly disclosed.
• All claims made by AI in the production of a story must be fact-checked by a reporter and overseen by a senior editor.
• All stories using AI will have a reporter directly responsible for their content.
• Stories using AI will not be published under false or fictitious names.
• Use of AI by a reporter must be disclosed to their editor.
• Stories written primarily by AI must be appropriately disclosed publicly.
• AI will not be used to generate artificial images or videos of real people out of context.
• AI will not be used to generate artificial images or videos that give a false or misleading impression of facts or events.