We believe transparency is critical, especially when it comes to AI. These days, it can be hard to know what content out there is AI generated and what’s made by real people! We want our readers to be completely clear on how AI was used in content they’re experiencing.
It’s our top priority to give you truthful, fact-based information based on academic research and expert sources. (NEVER AI hallucinations or slop.)
This website is about relationships. That is, it’s about people.
Writing about this topic involves a first-person understanding of what it feels like to have emotions and be in relationships with other people. No AI can provide that. That’s why our articles are written mainly by real people, including professional opinions, expert FAQ articles, personal stories, and any piece that requires a nuanced, empathetic interpretation of difficult relationship topics.
Any article you see on this site that has a person’s name attached as the author is written by a human.
What we use AI for
As content creators, we use AI to help us where we can and make the site richer, better, and more efficient, so we can bring even more trustworthy content to you. That includes tasks like:
- Academic research: Researching a topic and finding peer-reviewed articles to support all claims within an article
- Writing drafts: We’re using AI to draft articles on relationship topics where academic research is available to guide it; a seasoned (human) science editor polishes and fact-checks every article before publication
- Proofreading: Checking for spelling and grammar issues in articles written by humans
- Admin: Creating internal processes that make our job easier
- Tech: SEO, GEO, troubleshooting technical issues
- Social posting: We may use AI to create some social posts using Relationship Smart articles. But all social content is reviewed and tweaked by a living, breathing human who cares about what our audience sees and gets from our content
- Audio edition: The Relationship Smart Audio Edition features articles from the site read aloud by AI; the use of AI is clearly stated in the introduction to each audio article
All articles that were drafted by AI on Relationship Smart will say so clearly in the byline. (Like, “Claude AI”.) They will also list the name of the human who oversaw that AI and reviewed and fact-checked the content.