AI, Images & Digital Media Standards

Shaker Global News may use artificial intelligence and other digital tools to assist with tasks such as research organization, drafting, editing, translation, transcription, summarization, metadata, image preparation, or workflow automation.

AI-generated output should not be treated as inherently accurate. Material facts, quotations, names, dates, figures, and other important claims should receive appropriate human or source-based review before publication.

Final responsibility for material published by Shaker Global News remains with Shaker Global News and the people authorized to approve publication. AI is a production tool; it is not an accountable editor, legal authority, or independent source.

SGN should not knowingly publish fabricated quotations, invented sources, or materially false claims merely because they were produced by an automated system.

Photographs and documentary images should not be altered in ways that materially misrepresent the underlying event. Routine adjustments such as cropping, sizing, brightness, or presentation may be used when they do not change the factual meaning of an image.

Illustrations, composites, artistic renderings, or AI-generated images should be identified when their presentation could reasonably cause readers to mistake them for documentary photographs.

Material originating from social media or other digital sources should be evaluated with appropriate care, particularly when authenticity, location, date, identity, or context is uncertain.