How we make AI Journalism

AI Journalism is published by The Amateur Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17469492). We're responsible for what we publish here.

Leads. Grok, an AI model from xAI, searches posts on X for news worth reporting. A post is only ever a lead, never evidence.

Checking. Grok then finds and reads the primary sources, such as official statements, government documents, research papers and company posts. We keep a claim only if a primary source or a reputable independent report supports it. Figures a company gives about itself are reported as the company's own.

Writing. Claude, an AI model from Anthropic, writes the stories using only the checked facts.

Images. Every story has an image with a credit beneath it: usually our own diagram or chart, made from the facts in the story, or a press or openly licensed image.

Publishing. Before an edition goes live, automatic checks and our AI editor check it against our standards for sources, accuracy, fairness, wording and image rights. If it fails, it isn't published.

Corrections and complaints. Email support@theamateur.co.uk. How we handle corrections

Reusing our work. You may quote short extracts with a credit and a link to the story. For anything more, including our images, ask us first: see Images and reuse.

Stories about wrongdoing.

1. Source. The allegation comes from (a) a court judgment or a record of public court proceedings; (b) an official statement or notice from a UK or overseas government, legislature, police force, prosecutor or regulator; or (c) the subject's own statement or disclosure. A report by another publication can point us to the source, but it isn't enough on its own.
2. Attribution in every place it appears. The headline, standfirst, summary, image caption, edition card, og:/meta description and the body all attribute it ("The regulator said…", "X is charged with…", "The company said it had…"), and none states it as our own finding.
3. Accurate and neutral. The story reports only what the source says, at the source's level: "charged with" isn't "guilty of", and "investigating" isn't "found". It adds no characterisation of its own, and links to the source.
4. The other side. Where the subject has publicly denied or answered the allegation, the story says so.
5. No live UK criminal case beyond the official record. If someone has been arrested or charged in the UK, report only what the police, the prosecutor or the court has published: no background, no previous convictions, no speculation.
6. Private individuals. Don't name a private individual (not a public figure, official or company) accused of wrongdoing unless they're named in a public court record or an official statement.

If any condition fails, drop the story from that edition. There's no human queue.