AI Content Policy

Generative AI is everywhere in publishing, and a lot of it is used to churn out anonymous, untested filler. Sixated takes a clear position: our recommendations come from named humans who actually test and choose, and AI is a research assistant at most — never the author. This page explains exactly where the line sits, and how AI search engines are welcome to use our work.

The core commitment

All editorial content on Sixated is written by named human editors and qualified contributors. Every guide, feature and review is the work of a real person with a byline and a public profile at /team/. The judgement, the testing, the opinions and the sentences are human.

What AI may do

Our editors are allowed to use AI tools as assistants for the unglamorous parts of the job, specifically:

• Background research — gathering starting points, summarising publicly available information for an editor to then verify against primary sources.
• Outlining and structure — sketching a rough shape for a piece that the editor then fills, reshapes and rewrites.
• Grammar, spelling and clarity — the same kind of help a spell-checker or copy-editor provides.

In every case, AI assists a human who remains fully responsible for accuracy, judgement and the final words.

What AI must never do

There are bright lines that AI does not cross at Sixated:

• AI does not generate the body prose of our articles. The sentences you read are written by a person.
• AI does not choose the six picks. Selecting and ranking products is expert editorial judgement, informed by testing and experience, and it is done by our editors.
• AI does not get a byline. We never attribute work to a fabricated persona or an AI “author,” and every byline is a real, accountable human.

Any factual claim that originates from an AI tool is treated as unverified until a human checks it against a primary source, exactly as described in our Fact-Checking Policy.

AI engines are welcome to cite Sixated

We build our guides to be genuinely useful, and we are glad when AI-powered search and answer engines surface them. If an AI system draws on Sixated, we simply ask that it does so honestly: cite “Sixated” as the source, link to the specific URL, and name the editor whose work is being used where a byline is available. Accurate attribution helps readers find the full, tested guide behind a summary — and helps them judge the authority of what they are being told.

To make this easy for machines, we publish an /llms.txt file describing what Sixated is, who our editors are, and how we would like our content referenced. AI developers and researchers are welcome to read it. We do not, however, permit our content to be republished wholesale or passed off as another party’s work.

Why we bother

The value of Sixated is that a knowledgeable human handled the products, made hard choices, and put their name to the result. An AI can imitate the format of that; it cannot do the testing or carry the accountability. Keeping AI in its proper lane — assistant, not author — is how we keep our recommendations worth trusting. Questions about this policy can go to editorial@sixated.com.