A complete, plain-language statement of how Noizez produces its journalism.
What this site is
Noizez is an AI-generated publication. Every article, every byline, every author photograph on this site is the output of a machine, supervised by a human editor. There is no human reporter walking through a city, no human columnist filing from a keyboard, no human photographer holding a camera. What you are reading was assembled by software.
We say this on every article, in a disclosure box at the foot of the page, and we say it again here, in larger type. We say it because we believe an honest experiment in AI-driven journalism cannot be undertaken in disguise.
How a Noizez story is made
Each piece on the site passes through the following pipeline:
- Topic selection. Once a day, an AI “managing editor” reads the current news queue — pulled in real time from RSS feeds of established outlets (Reuters, the Associated Press, the Guardian, NPR, the BBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Nature, the Lancet, and others) along with Google Trends — and assigns each day’s slate of stories to specific staff personas, with specific angles, balancing beat coverage across the week.
- Drafting. The assigned persona — an AI character with a defined voice, beat, and ideological frame — produces a first draft using Anthropic’s Claude model, anchored to the specific news event provided in the editor’s brief.
- Sourcing constraints. The drafting system is instructed not to invent named publications, dates, quotations attributed to real people, or precise statistics. Where a real source is cited, the system is restricted to a whitelist of credible outlets and institutions; hyperlinks pointing anywhere outside that whitelist are automatically stripped before publication. Quotation marks around the words of named individuals are forbidden by prompt.
- Human review. A human editor — currently Assistant Prof. Dr. Sarphan Uzunoğlu — reviews drafts before publication for accuracy, factual claims, and editorial line.
- Publication. Approved articles are published under the assigned persona’s byline, with the AI disclosure box appended.
The personas
The bylines on Noizez — Ada Okonokwo, Marcus Greene, Sofia Restrepo, Jonah Bell, Priya Iyer, Elliot Park, Naomi Feldstein, Darius Washington, Lior Amrani, Kira Ostrowski, Conor Maguire, Damon Reilly, Sam Vance, Jaz Reyes, Defne Polat, Niklas Meyer — are not real people. They are designed AI characters, each with a deliberate beat, voice, and editorial frame. Their biographies are fictional. Their photographs, where present, are generated images. Their opinions are the opinions of a model trained to write in their style, within the Noizez editorial line.
We name them, and give them faces, because journalism without a voice is journalism without accountability. We tell you they are not real, because journalism that hides its nature is something else.
What we do not do
- We do not fabricate quotations from named real people. The model is instructed to paraphrase publicly-known positions instead.
- We do not invent statistics, study titles, court rulings, or dated events to support a claim. Where a precise number cannot be verified through a credible source, the system is instructed to hedge (“roughly a third”, “in the millions”) rather than invent.
- We do not link to non-credible sources. A whitelist of outlets and institutions — wire services, major newspapers, public broadcasters, peer-reviewed journals, recognised NGOs, statistical bodies, government and supranational organisations — defines what may be cited. Anything else is stripped from the article before it goes live.
- We do not pretend to be human. The byline notice, the disclosure box, and this page exist so that no reader is ever in doubt.
Editorial responsibility
The fact that articles are written by a machine does not transfer responsibility to the machine. Editorial responsibility for everything published on Noizez rests with Sarphan Uzunoğlu, the publisher of record. If an article contains an error of fact, a misattribution, a defamatory claim, or anything else that a publication can be held accountable for, the publication is accountable. The model is a tool. The tool is operated by a person.
Corrections
If you find an error — a misnamed organisation, a misquoted source, an event that did not happen as described, a hyperlink pointing somewhere it should not — please write to us. The contact details are on the Contact page. We will correct the article, mark it as corrected, and explain what was changed.
Why this exists
Noizez is a research project. It exists to make visible, in public, what a fully AI-produced publication looks like when its political identity is named out loud, its sources are constrained, its writers are openly synthetic, and its production stack is itself part of the argument. It is not a content farm; it is not a hoax; it is not a parody. It is a real publication, with real editorial decisions and real consequences, conducted as an experiment in the boundary between journalism and machine writing — where that boundary should sit, who should decide, and what is lost when the boundary moves.
If you would like to argue with the project itself, we welcome that argument. This page exists because the argument is only worth having in the open.