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AI transparency

What we use AI for, who reviews, and who is responsible.

What we use AI for

AI systems support our research, outlining and first text draft. They suggest wording, summarise sources and check texts against our own rules.

What they do not do: decide what gets published. No article, no image and no statement goes live without a human sign-off.

Who reviews

Before publication, every article is read in full by a qualified person, verified against the original sources and approved. Responsible for this is Visar, Founder & CEO, business information systems engineer.

A spell check or a blanket approval is not enough. What is required is a review of the substance, and a fact check is part of the minimum.

Sign-off comes last — the notice comes first

After human sign-off, no AI system runs substantively over the text again. This is not a matter of style but the condition under which the exemption from the labelling duty applies at all.

The notice, by contrast, comes first: the European Commission’s Code of Practice of 10 June 2026 requires a disclosure that is “clear, accessible and visible at the time of first exposure”. A note at the foot of the page does not meet that — anyone who stops reading after the third paragraph never sees it. Every affected article therefore carries the short form in its header and the full version, with reviewer and date, below.

If an article is revised later, the sequence starts over: draft, review, sign-off. The date of the last review is shown on the article.

Why we disclose this although we need not

As of August 2026 there is no statutory labelling duty for AI-generated content in Switzerland. On 12 February 2025 the Federal Council decided to ratify the Council of Europe’s AI Convention and to adapt the law sector by sector rather than create cross-cutting regulation; the consultation draft is to be prepared by the end of 2026.

Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 has applied since 2 August 2026 and can reach Swiss businesses where content is discernibly also intended for an EU audience. Mere accessibility of a website from the EU is not sufficient on its own.

The Digital Omnibus does not change this: Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force since 27 July 2026, postpones the obligations for high-risk systems to December 2027 and August 2028 respectively — it leaves Article 50 untouched. Anyone concluding from the headline “the EU delays the AI Act” that the transparency duty is deferred is reading the wrong half.

We disclose it anyway. Anyone who wants to know how a text came about should be able to read it without having to ask.

What this means for client projects

The same rule applies to content we produce for clients: drafting with AI support is permitted, publishing without human sign-off is not.

Clients who want to carry the disclosure in their own name receive the details from us — which systems were used, to what extent, and who reviewed.

Legal basis