™How This Paper Is Written
The LA Globe is a small independent paper born in Los Angeles, and it is written with artificial intelligence. This page says plainly what that means, because a reader deciding how much to trust a story should not have to guess.
What the AI does
The Globe’s stories are drafted by AI writing systems. News coverage is analysis and digest of reporting by other outlets — the outlet that did the original reporting is named and linked in every story, because the attribution is the format, not a courtesy. Data panels (sports scores, listings, schedules) render from named live sources and say so on the page. Most of the paper’s art is AI-generated; it is labeled “Photo illustration: The LA Globe” or “Illustration: The LA Globe” in the caption, and photography by real photographers is credited by name and license. The site itself — pages, sections, the front page — is assembled by software.
What humans do
Stories that pass the paper’s checks publish automatically each morning, and a human editor can stop any of them before it goes out. A story about a lawsuit, an accusation, a death or someone under 18 is marked when it is written, and a marked story never publishes on its own: it waits for the editor’s approval. The editor decides what the paper covers and answers for what it prints. Corrections are a human’s job too: if something published here is wrong, write to editor@thelaglobe.com with “Correction” in the subject line and a person will read it. Corrected stories carry a note explaining what changed.
What a byline means here
Stories run under a desk byline — By The LA Globe — City Desk and its siblings. Those are institutional bylines on AI-drafted work, the way a wire service signs “Staff.” A byline naming a person appears only when the editor puts one there, and every story going out under a person’s name is shown to the editor, on its own card, before it publishes. Design-preview pages — sections still wearing their designed mock while real coverage fills in — ask search engines not to index them, stay out of the site’s sitemaps, and carry invented bylines that belong to no real person. They are being replaced, band by band, with real reported stories.
What the paper does not do
The Globe does not invent quotes, sources, or numbers; a data panel that cannot name its source does not render. It does not fabricate reader comments or engagement counts. It does not put a real person’s face in generated art. And it does not present sample furniture as reporting — that is why the preview pages stay unindexed and their bylines invented.
Why we say this out loud
Readers have been burned by publications that quietly automated their newsrooms. The Globe would rather say how the paper is made and be judged on the work. If anything on this page stops being true, that is a correction — write in.