The Tech News Portal AI Policy: Commitment to Transparency and Responsible Use
At The Tech News Portal, we harness Generative AI to enrich our platform, primarily through text-to-image creation and few more of our WIP AI initiatives. This document outlines our unwavering commitment to responsible, transparent, and ethical deployment of these tools, ensuring they uphold our high editorial and fairness standards.
1. Responsible and Transparent Use
We are dedicated to deploying AI while respecting rights, mitigating inherent biases, and maintaining editorial integrity. Our commitments include:
- Due Diligence and Disclosure: For every AI initiative, we conduct thorough due diligence and disclose the specific models and data sources used.
- Continuous Review: We conduct periodic, scheduled reviews of all AI workflows (image generation and Chatbot) to ensure outputs remain accurate, fair, and inclusive. We constantly adapt our practices as legal and ethical regulations evolve.
- Community Feedback Loop: We actively welcome and rely on community feedback. A unified mechanism allows users to report concerns regarding model choices, biased outputs, or factual errors, triggering timely investigations and corrective adjustments.
2. How We Use Text-to-Image Generation
We use generative AI to create compelling visuals for articles, following strict ethical guidelines:
- Avoiding Replication: We diligently avoid any model explicitly trained to replicate the work of specific living artists. We also credit the models we employ.
- Mitigating Bias: We recognize and actively correct for inherent biases (e.g., stereotypical gender or ethnic portrayals) through prompt refinement and post-processing. We ensure diverse and inclusive representation in our visuals.
- Workflow: Our typical process involves multiple iterations (10–20 prompts), avoiding the use of living artists’ names, using inpainting for precision, and iterating via image-to-image refinement. We share general guidelines internally rather than publishing every single prompt.
- Public Accountability: A dedicated public form allows readers to flag concerns about any visual output, initiating a thorough investigation and corrective action if unintended harm or misconduct is found.
3. Our AI Chatbot for Content Discovery
Our AI Chatbot is trained primarily on The Tech News Portal’s own published content (with occasional supplementation from vetted public datasets). It is designed to assist users with content discovery and summarization, not professional advice.
- Scope and Function: The Chatbot helps users find, summarize, and contextualize our articles and analysis (e.g., queries about startup insights, market trends).
- Limitations and Disclaimer: It is not a substitute for professional advice (legal, financial, or technical). The Chatbot will issue a polite disclaimer for complex or sensitive inquiries that require proprietary data or expert consultation.
- Factual Grounding and Citation: To minimize “hallucinations” (inaccuracies), the Chatbot uses a retrieval mechanism that grounds responses in actual TTP material. It always references the original article title, date, and link when providing factual statements derived from our content.
- Safety and Integrity: We implement safeguards against malicious prompts (e.g., sandboxing) and monitor usage for abuse (spam, scraping) using rate limits.
- Human Handoff: For sensitive or complex queries, the Chatbot suggests consulting a human editor or specialist, offering to direct users to our editorial team. Staff managing the Chatbot conduct regular audits and knowledge base updates.
Important Notice
We are committed to using AI tools responsibly and transparently, and we will continuously monitor and adapt this policy. We welcome all feedback from our community. Please be aware that AI-generated responses may occasionally contain inaccuracies; therefore, our AI tools do not constitute technical, financial, or legal advice and should not be relied upon for making specific investment or business decisions. Always verify critical information.