The machine drafts. A person signs.
Teletext.ie, an Irish news service, uses AI to summarise. It does not use AI to decide what is true, what is news, or what to publish.
It drafts the three facts and the “why it matters” sentence from source reporting. It suggests which section a story belongs in. It writes nothing that a person has not read against the source before publication.
It does not choose the edition. It does not publish. It does not write original reporting. It does not generate images of real events — every photograph on this site is a real photograph, owned or licensed, and credited. It does not write headlines that a person hasn’t approved.
Every frame carries a receipt: AI SUMMARY · CHECKED BY {INITIALS} plus the time it was checked. Original reporting carries the same receipt plus a byline and yellow brackets — the three-fact summary at the top of an original is drafted the same way; the reporting beneath it is ours, written by the person named in the byline. If a frame has no receipt, it isn’t ours.
Which AI does Teletext.ie use? A frontier large-language model, accessed through its API. It sees the published source reporting and nothing else — no reader data, no subscriber list and no email addresses are ever sent to it, and no Teletext.ie reader data is used to train it. Outputs are retained briefly for correction audits, then deleted.
What we’d do if the machine got it wrong: the same thing we’d do if a person did — correct it, log it, and say so. The receipt exists so that responsibility has a name and a timestamp attached to it. See Corrections.
Is this news written by AI?
AI drafts every summary, and a named human editor checks and signs it before it publishes. No story publishes unchecked, and no original reporting is written by AI.
Does AI decide what's news on Teletext.ie?
No. An editor picks every story in every edition. AI drafts the summary of a story that has already been chosen, and never selects, ranks or orders the edition.
Are the photographs AI-generated?
No. Every photograph on Teletext.ie is a real photograph, owned or licensed, and credited. Teletext.ie publishes no AI-generated imagery of real events.
What happens if the AI gets a fact wrong?
An editor catches it before publication — that is what the check is for. If one gets through, we correct it within one edition cycle and log it at /corrections/.