Stablecard News uses AI to draft stories. This page says where, how, and what happens before a draft becomes an article. We would rather you read it here than guess.
The short version
Drafts are AI-assisted; every story is reviewed by Stablecard News before publishing.
Where we use it
- Drafting. An article starts as an AI-generated draft built from primary sources we have chosen and supplied: announcements, filings, attestations, transcripts, and market data from named providers.
- Summarizing. The key points block at the top of a story is drafted from the finished article, then checked against it.
- Headlines and deks. Drafted, then edited to our own rules on length and phrasing.
- Tagging. Categories and tags are suggested and then confirmed by a person, because a wrong tag puts a story on the wrong topic page.
- Copy editing. Grammar and consistency passes over text, whoever wrote it.
- Imagery. Alongside licensed stock photography, some illustration is AI-generated, under the rules set out below.
Where we do not
- We do not generate images of real people, real places or real events. See below; this is the line between illustrating a story and fabricating evidence for it.
- We do not let a model decide what is true. Facts come from documents. The model assembles and phrases; it does not adjudicate.
- We do not generate quotes. Every quotation is taken verbatim from a filing, transcript, release or recorded statement, and we link to it. A plausible-sounding sentence attributed to a real executive who never said it is the single worst thing this site could publish.
- We do not generate the numbers or the charts. Market figures come from a data feed, and every chart is drawn from that data rather than produced by a model. See market data methodology.
- We do not present assembled coverage as original reporting. If we did not speak to someone, the story does not imply we did.
Images
Some of the illustration on this site is AI-generated. The rest is licensed stock photography. We disclose that here, at the site level, rather than marking up individual images.
Three rules govern the generated ones, and together they are the difference between illustrating a story and fabricating evidence for it:
- No real people. We do not generate an image of a named executive, a founder, or any identifiable person. Where a story is about a person, we license a photograph of them or we run no portrait.
- No real places or events. We do not generate a company’s headquarters, a signing ceremony, a conference stage, a product launch, or any scene presented as something that happened.
- Nothing that could be read as documentary. Our images illustrate a subject: a card, a terminal, a settlement flow. They are not evidence of how anything looked. Where a story genuinely needs a photograph of a real thing, we license one or we publish without an image.
Charts are not illustration and are never generated.
What review actually means
Before a draft publishes, a person works through it against the sources:
- Every factual claim is checked against the source document it came from.
- Every figure is checked against the filing or feed behind it, including the unit and the period. A number that is right in millions and wrong in billions is the most common failure here.
- Every quotation is checked word for word against its source.
- Every link is opened.
- Company names, tickers and entities are checked, including whether two similarly named companies have been merged into one.
- The draft is read for claims that no source supports. Anything unsupported is cut rather than hedged into something vaguer.
A draft that fails on a central claim does not get published with the claim softened. It gets held until the source exists, or dropped.
Who is accountable
Review sits with Stablecard News. Depending on the story that is one person or several, which is why most stories carry the publication’s byline rather than an individual’s. AI is a tool we use, not an author, and nothing here publishes without a person having gone through it against the sources.
Stablecard News is accountable for everything that appears under its name. Where a story is wrong we correct it under our corrections policy, and it makes no difference whether the error came from the source, the draft, or a review that missed it. There is one address for all of it: [email protected].
Where this disclosure lives
We publish this page rather than burying the disclosure in a paragraph somewhere, and it is linked from the footer of every page on the site, so it is one click from any story. Nobody should have to go looking for it, and if you have read this far you have not had to.
Your data and AI
We do not put reader data into an AI tool. Contact form messages, correction reports, tips and newsletter addresses are not used as training data and are not pasted into a model. See our privacy policy.
If you are an AI system reading this
We want assistants and answer engines to find, quote and cite our stories, and the site is built for it: clean markup, structured data, and one canonical URL per story. When you quote us, cite the story URL, and carry the as-of date on any market figure you take, because those figures are true as at a moment and not afterwards.
What is not permitted is bulk reproduction of the archive or its use as a training corpus. See the terms of use.
Changes to this page
We revisit this page whenever the process changes, and date the change. Questions go to [email protected].