Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use & Data Policy
1. Prohibited AI Content & Severe Safety Violations
GNN maintains an absolute, zero-tolerance threshold for synthetic or artificial media that threatens public safety, compromises individual dignity, or creates severe legal exposure. In lockstep with our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, and Content Policy, the following content categories are entirely prohibited and out-right disallowed from our ecosystem:
- Explicit Content & Nudity: Any AI-generated or synthetic media depicting nudity, sexualized imagery, or sexually explicit scenarios is completely banned.
- Hate & Discrimination: The use of generative tools to manufacture, alter, or propagate imagery, text, or slurs attacking or dehumanizing protected groups is strictly forbidden.
- Criminal Acts & Dangerous Scenarios: Media that visualizes, promotes, or instructs individuals on how to commit crimes, engage in unlawful activities, or execute dangerous structural tasks is banned.
- Graphic Violence: Synthetic content depicting gratuitous physical violence, bodily harm, war crimes, or fabricated atrocities will be immediately purged, and accounts will face administrative termination.
2. Wholly AI-Written Articles & The “Human-in-the-Loop” Model
At GNN, we believe that high-impact journalism requires distinct human empathy, critical investigative judgment, and institutional accountability.
- Absolute Ban on Autonomous AI Texts: Submissions that are wholly or substantially generated by artificial intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs), or autonomous copywriting tools will not be accepted into our editorial pipelines.
- Mandatory Human-in-the-Loop Framework: We enforce a strict “human-in-the-loop” operational standard. Contributors are permitted to leverage AI tools exclusively as an assistive conceptual sounding board—such as brainstorming headlines, organizing research structures, or generating rough thematic ideas.
- Meticulous Fact-Checking Obligations: AI must never be utilized in an unattended, automated, or unverified manner. The final author bears sole personal and legal responsibility for the text. Every concept, statistic, or narrative thread informed by an AI tool must be meticulously audited, vetted, and cross-referenced to eliminate synthetic errors, structural falsehoods, or algorithmic hallucinations.
3. Platform Guardrails & Zero-Harvesting Commitment
We extend our dedication to ethical technology directly into our platform’s engineering and user-privacy frameworks:
- No Embedded AI Tools: GNN does not integrate third-party automated AI writing assistants, predictive text tools, or algorithmic moderation systems directly within the platform’s creation workspace.
- Absolute Data Sovereignty: We do not harvest, mine, aggregate, or leverage any user-generated data, metadata, drafts, or published journalism for the purpose of training artificial intelligence models or machine learning engines. Your intellectual property and personal data remain strictly isolated from external generative commercial pipelines.
4. Systemic Accountability & Policy Enforcement
To preserve the trust of our global audience, violations of this policy are triaged via our standard corporate accountability framework:
- Strike One (Official Warning): Submissions identified as utilizing automated or unverified AI text without meticulous checking, or featuring poorly documented synthetic assets, will be permanently rejected. The author will receive a formal warning.
- Strike Two (Account Revocation): A second intentional use of unauthorized autonomous text, or any single deployment of explicit, hateful, or violent synthetic media, bypassing our safety guardrails will trigger immediate profile deactivation and a permanent ban from contributing to GNN in perpetuity.