AI & Automated Publishing Policy

AI & Automated Publishing Policy

The Ganges Today is a modern, technologically forward digital newsroom. We believe in complete transparency regarding the technological tools, software automation, and artificial intelligence systems utilized in our news publishing workflow.

How Automation & AI Are Used in Our Workflow

The Ganges Today uses automated software systems and artificial intelligence to assist with the continuous collection, processing, summarisation, structural formatting, and metadata generation of news information gathered from publicly available, verified sources.

• Source Gathering: Automated aggregators monitor official government press release feeds (PIB), ministry portals, parliamentary channels, and authorized wire transmissions.
• Draft Synthesis: AI models are utilized to process lengthy statutory documents, budget tables, and transcripts, generating initial factual summaries and structured editorial outlines.
• Verification & Curation: All synthesized drafts are cross-checked against the underlying primary source records to eliminate hallucinations, verify quoted figures, and ensure factual fidelity before publication.
• Byline Transparency: The Ganges Today explicitly identifies automated or software-assisted dispatches. We do not represent automatically synthesized content as original, on-the-ground reporting by a human correspondent.

Our Commitments & Safeguards

• Zero Fabrication: We do not use generative AI to fabricate quotes, invent non-existent government sources, or manufacture synthetic events. Every substantive assertion is tied to a documented public record.
• Factual Fallibility: We acknowledge that automated systems can make errors. Where an algorithmic error occurs, it is treated with the same urgency as a human error and corrected transparently under our Corrections Policy.
• Visual Integrity: We do not publish photorealistic AI-generated ‘deepfake’ imagery depicting real public officials or news events. Editorial photographs are authentic journalistic captures.
• No Ghost Byline Deception: We do not fabricate fictional reporter names or create artificial correspondent personas to make our newsroom appear larger than it is. Reports are transparently credited to The Ganges Today Desk.