How We Use AI
We are an AI-assisted newsroom, and we would rather tell you exactly what that means than leave you guessing. Here is how AI fits into our reporting — and where humans stay firmly in charge.
The short version
Most articles on Traders On Trend are drafted with the assistance of AI systems, built from our own licensed market data, and automatically fact-checked so that every number traces to that source data before the article can publish. AI helps us write more of the market, faster. It does not decide what is true: our editors set the standards it must meet, and they stand behind what we publish.
What the AI actually does
Our drafting systems take the day's reported market data — the same licensed, institutional-grade figures we would report by hand — and turn them into readable first-draft stories. That is where the technology earns its place: it lets a small desk cover far more companies, earnings prints, and market moves each day than manual writing would allow.
The AI works from data we have already sourced. It is not asked to recall figures from memory, and it is not the origin of any number in our articles. The prices, percentages, market caps, and earnings figures come from our data feeds; the AI's job is to describe them in plain language.
How we fact-check the numbers
Because language models can produce fluent but wrong statements, we do not take an AI draft's figures on faith. Every number in a story is checked to confirm it traces back to our sourced market data. If a figure cannot be verified against that data, it is removed. This is the same never-fabricate rule that governs all of our reporting — AI drafting does not get an exception.
Where humans stay in charge
Every AI-drafted article must clear an automated fact-check — tying each figure to our source data — before it goes live, and anything that fails is held back, not published, as described in our Editorial Standards. Our editorial staff, under Editor-in-Chief Lovely Glorioso, set those standards, enforce our compliance boundaries, and monitor and correct what we publish. Accountability for what we publish rests with our human editors, not with a model.
What AI will never do here
AI-assisted or not, our stories are the work of a financial publisher, not an investment adviser. We do not use AI — or anything else — to tell readers to buy or sell a security, to promise that an investment will make money, or to generate personalized financial advice. We also do not use AI to invent quotes, fabricate data, or manufacture a market narrative that the numbers do not support.
Why we disclose this
Readers deserve to know how the journalism they are reading is made, especially in a field where the stakes are people's money. Being transparent and specific about our use of AI is consistent with a people-first approach to publishing: the value of a story comes from accurate, useful, well-reviewed information — regardless of whether a human or a machine typed the first draft. If you ever have questions about how a particular story was produced, contact us.