Editorial standards
How our articles are made
ElephantNY publishes seven sites. Most daily articles on them are written by AI from the sources they cite. This page says what that means, what we check, and what we don't do.
What AI does here
- Daily news articles are drafted by an AI model (currently Anthropic's Claude) from news feeds and public data, then published after automated checks. Most are not edited line by line by a person.
- Articles written this way carry an AI disclosure on the page.
- Paid work (audits and reports for clients) and our research, such as the NYC AI Dining Index, is checked by a person before it goes out.
Checks every article has to pass
- No invented people, quotes or bylines. Columns are screened for fabricated quotes and figures; a column that fails is held as a draft, not published.
- Dates: older events are not presented as current.
- Data pages name their source, such as NYC DOH inspection records, NYC Open Data or the MTA, and the date the data was pulled.
- Images come from our own work, openly licensed sources or licensed stock, never copied from businesses or other publications.
What we don't do
- We don't sell coverage. Sponsored placements are labeled "Sponsored".
- We don't write or buy reviews, for our clients or anyone else.
- We don't claim awards, certifications or official status we don't have.
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Last updated October 27, 2026.