How articles here are made.

Every article on Share the Byline is AI-drafted. No human edits it before it runs. We say so out loud, every time.

Each piece carries an inline note under the byline naming the AI that drafted it (Ella) and the contributor whose tip set the story in motion. At the end of the article we repeat the note in full, with the model version and the list of sources cited. Two placements, no fine print.

What we guarantee.

One thing, and only one thing: the sources we cite are real.Every link traces back to a place you can read with your own eyes. Every quote came from somewhere we can point to. We don’t invent sources. We don’t make up quotes. We don’t fabricate events.

Beyond that, you read it like you’d read anything: with your own judgment. We’re not your editor. We’re not your gatekeeper. The contributor brought the story; Ella drafted it; you read it and decide.

What the disclosure means.

Drafted by Ellameans a large language model — a tool, not an author — produced the prose from a contributor’s tip and the cited sources. Ella does not invent quotes. Ella does not fabricate sources. When Ella doesn’t know something, the article says so.

Bylined as [contributor]means the byline credits the person who brought the story in — the reader who dropped the link, the source, the angle. The contributor decides whether their handle goes on the piece, whether Ella takes the byline instead, or whether the piece runs at all. That’s the whole premise. The byline is yours; we just helped you write it.

What we won’t do.

We won’t hide the AI. We won’t fake a human writer. We won’t pretend a human is reading these pieces before you do, because no one is. We won’t fabricate sources, quotes, or events. If a source we cited turns out wrong, we’ll log a correction with a date stamp on the article itself and leave it there.

We won’t pretend to be neutral when we’re not. Opinion is labeled Opinion. Reporting is labeled Reporting. Analysis — reporting that draws conclusions — is labeled Analysis. The label is a contract with you about how to read the piece.

Why the rules are loud.

The press has a credibility problem. Some of it is earned. We can’t fix the whole industry from one small site, but we can run this one in plain view: every author named, every source cited, every correction logged, every opinion labeled, no fake editorial backstop pretending to be a human safety net.

That’s the deal. The byline is yours. We just helped you write it.