On AI Images

We’ve received a few ques­tions about why we use AI-gen­er­at­ed images, so we want to clar­i­fy our approach. Licens­ing pho­tographs from major agen­cies is far beyond our bud­get, and using copy­right­ed images with­out per­mis­sion would be ille­gal. Our AI-gen­er­at­ed images are always clear­ly dis­closed and exist sole­ly to illus­trate the themes of each post—they nev­er invent facts, depict events that nev­er hap­pened, or present fab­ri­cat­ed indi­vid­u­als as real. All of our report­ing is ground­ed entire­ly in pub­licly avail­able sources, with links pro­vid­ed so read­ers can ver­i­fy every claim for them­selves. We’re sor­ry if an illus­tra­tive image rais­es doubts for some read­ers, but we gen­uine­ly don’t see why it should; the images depict only gener­ic scenes con­sis­tent with the post’s dis­cus­sion. And if any well-fund­ed sup­port­ers would like to help us license real pho­tog­ra­phy in the future, we’d be glad to hear from them. 🙂