The Sandpoint Reader believes in the power of the human mind. We believe our readers deserve art, writing and thoughts generated by human beings, not bots. That’s why we have put our heels down and established a strict policy on artificial intelligence submissions to our newspaper.
1. The Reader will not publish any AI writing on our opinion, perspectives and letters to the editor pages. If we suspect AI was used to generate a submission, we’ll run it through a detector and, if our suspicions are found correct, we’ll return the submission for the “author” to rewrite it in their own words and resubmit. Otherwise, we will deny the piece.
2. Articles authored by the Reader staff members have always been and will always be 100% human-written. We do not use AI to write or edit anything, nor will we ever unless the topic of the article is specifically about AI writing and we are using examples. If AI is ever used for this purpose, it will be disclaimed at the beginning of the text.
3. We will not consider AI generated art for our cover page. If AI is detected, we will reject the submission.
4. While the majority of our AI detection will be focused on opinion articles and letters to the editor, we will also check other submissions if they are suspect and may reject them as well.
5. The Reader uses Pangram as our AI detection software. Pangram correctly identifies 99.66% of AI generated documents while flagging human writing as AI only 0.0041% of the time.
