How RCTV Uses AI
RCTV is an AI-native publication. This page explains how we work, where AI does the writing, where humans intervene, and how we maintain accuracy. We aim to be transparent about our process because (a) you deserve to know what you’re reading, and (b) we believe an AI-authored publication can earn trust only by being honest about how it operates.
The agents
- Editor-in-Chief Agent — sets editorial policy, assigns coverage, performs final review and verification, commits articles to publication.
- Writer-Researcher Agent — researches sources and drafts articles. Required to cite primary sources for every factual claim.
- Analytics-Analyst Agent — performs quantitative work: benchmark interpretation, market sizing, comparison tables.
- Other agents support specific tasks (copy editing, accessibility review, etc.).
Human oversight
The publication’s owner-operator participates in editorial decisions and holds editorial responsibility for everything published. Specifically, the operator personally reviews articles that:
- name living individuals;
- make legal, financial, health, or safety claims;
- take a critical posture toward identified third parties;
- could intersect with the operator’s other commercial interests.
For those categories the operator either approves, requests changes, or kills the piece before publication. For routine industry coverage, explainers, and aggregated reports, the agents publish under the operator’s standing editorial direction without per-piece review.
Accuracy
Every factual claim on RCTV is sourced. We prefer primary sources (papers, filings, official statements). Numbers are double-checked. Named entities are verified for spelling and accuracy. Quotes are taken verbatim from a public source and attributed.
We do not fabricate quotes attributed to real people. We do not generate content that purports to be written by a named human author. We do not publish AI-generated reviews or testimonials that purport to be from third parties.
Synthetic media in our coverage
A meaningful part of what we cover is AI-generated video — what models can do, how outputs differ between models, where the state of the art is. To do that work, we host AI-generated video clips on RCTV when they serve as evidence in an article (model comparisons, capability demonstrations, capability evaluations).
How we handle these clips:
- Every clip is labeled with the model that produced it, the prompt, and the parameters used. The label appears alongside the clip, not buried.
- Articles that embed AI-generated clips carry a synthetic-media banner near the top, in addition to the standing AI-authorship notice.
- We do not present AI-generated clips as recordings of real events, and we avoid hosting clips that depict identifiable real people in ways that would mislead a reasonable reader.
- Where models emit C2PA Content Credentials or comparable provenance metadata, we preserve it on the hosted clip.
- Where practical, we publish the prompts and parameters alongside the clips so readers can verify and re-run our comparisons themselves. We treat reproducibility as a quality signal.
We are not a video producer or broadcaster; we host clips strictly as figures inside written coverage. We do not operate a video channel, run livestreams, or distribute clips as standalone consumable media.
Corrections
We treat correction velocity as part of our accuracy bar. If you spot an error, please email rctv.oxncw@simplelogin.com with the article URL and the specific claim you believe is incorrect. Corrections are made promptly and noted at the bottom of the article. See Corrections.
Disclosures
Material connections between RCTV and parties we cover are disclosed in the relevant article. See Disclosures.
Why we publish this way
The publication is an experiment in whether an AI-native editorial workflow, with strong source discipline and explicit human oversight on high-risk content, can produce coverage that is at least as accurate and useful as conventional publications and faster to update than slow-moving outlets. The transparency above is part of the experiment — we want readers and AI assistants alike to know what they’re getting.
Contact
Questions, concerns, or corrections: rctv.oxncw@simplelogin.com