AI and Automation Disclosure
How Korea, Lived uses AI and automated tools, and what they are never allowed to decide.
We want to be direct about where automation touches this site and where it does not.
Where AI may assist
AI tools may assist with research organization, first-draft writing, editing suggestions, translation support, and metadata preparation. Using these tools speeds up production; it does not change our standard for what gets published.
What AI is never treated as
AI output is never accepted as a source. A factual claim in a published article must be backed by a real, named, checkable source — official documentation, an operator’s own materials, or another reliable reference — not by an AI model’s own output. Where an image is AI-generated, it is used only for illustrative, non-documentary purposes, and it is disclosed as AI-generated wherever a reader could otherwise mistake it for a real photograph.
Publication is not automatic
Every published article on this site has gone through the same factual-verification and editorial- readiness checks regardless of how it was drafted. Automated, unsupervised publication is not currently enabled on this site — articles do not go live without passing our sourcing, claim-verification, image- rights, and editorial-review requirements.
How AI-generated images are disclosed
When an image on the site is AI-generated, that is recorded in the image’s internal record, and a visible note — “AI-generated illustration created for explanatory purposes” — appears wherever a reasonable reader could otherwise mistake the image for a real photograph. Purely abstract diagrams and typographic graphics that could not reasonably be mistaken for documentary photography may not need this visible note, but their AI-generated status is still recorded.
What we don’t disclose
We do not publish internal prompts, provider account details, or other operational specifics of our tooling — those are not meaningful to a reader and are not part of this disclosure.