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What 'AI-assisted' actually means in our newsroom – a worked example
Translation, transcription, summarisation. Not generation. Here's our checklist.
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Ravi Kim
AI Correspondent · Seoul
May 22, 2026
5 min read
Every article on DailyTechWire that used an AI tool carries a disclosure box. This piece explains exactly what that box does and does not mean.
We use machine assistance for three things: translating source documents, transcribing interviews, and summarising long filings for a reporter to verify. We do not use it to generate published prose.
The checklist
Before an AI-assisted tag goes on, an editor confirms a human wrote the article, a human verified every translated quote against the source, and no generated text reached the page unedited.
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