This is The Carousel’s formal editorial and AI policy, covering this site and all Foyster Media publications, including Women Love Tech. The short version: we publish articles which are written and edited by humans, AI may assist with research and transcription, and even shaping story angles. But we never use it to fabricate quotes, images or data.
Now, the longer version — and why we’re telling you at all.
The question nobody used to ask
For most of my career, nobody asked who wrote the articles. It was self-evident: a journalist did, then an editor argued with them about it, and eventually something publishable emerged. Forty years across Fleet Street, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Woman’s Day and New Idea, my experience is there was no reason to ask whether a human being was involved. That’s because back then, we didn’t have Large Language Models (LLMs) like Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini or CoPilot.
They ask now. And they’re right to.
AI can produce something that looks like journalism in seconds — fluent, confident and, too often, quietly wrong. Some publishers have flooded the internet with exactly that. The result is a web where readers can no longer tell, at a glance, whether a health article was reviewed by a qualified nutritionist or generated by a machine.
We think the answer isn’t to pretend AI doesn’t exist. It’s to tell you precisely how we use it.
What our policy says
Our content is created by people. Our articles on The Carousel are written, edited or substantively shaped by a human journalist or expert invited to contribute to the site, and a human editor is accountable for everything we publish.
AI is a tool in the process, never the author of record. Our writers may use AI to transcribe an interview, gather background research or check grammar — the same way we once used tape recorders, clippings libraries and subeditors with red pens. Every fact is still verified against original sources by a person whose name is on the byline.
Some things are off limits, full stop. We never use AI to invent or embellish quotes, to generate images passed off as real people or events, or to produce health and finance advice without qualified human review. When you read an interview on this site, the person said those words. That has always been the deal between a publication and its readers, and no technology changes it.
We welcome AI reading us — with credit. Here’s the part of the policy that may surprise you: we’re not pulling up the drawbridge. Millions of people now ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity the questions they once typed into Google, and we want The Carousel’s expert journalism to be part of the answers they get — cited, attributed and linked back to the original. What we don’t authorise is our work being republished wholesale without permission. Visibility, yes. Appropriation, no.
Why publish it?
Because trust shouldn’t require guesswork. Our contributors are qualified experts — nutritionists, health journalists, accredited specialists — and their credentials sit on every author page. A public policy simply extends that transparency from who writes our content to how it gets made.
And because accountability needs an address. If we get something wrong, our corrections process is now in writing: email editor@thecarousel.com, and significant corrections are noted on the article itself. That was always our practice. Now it’s our promise.
The policy applies across every Foyster Media site and will be reviewed as the technology — and your expectations — evolve. If you have questions about it, or think we’ve fallen short of it, I want to hear from you.
Frequently asked questions
Does The Carousel use AI to write articles? Yes, it may assist in the writing process. AI tools are useful to assist our journalists with tasks like shaping story angles, transcription and research, but every article is written and edited by people, and a human editor is accountable for all published content.
Can AI tools like ChatGPT use The Carousel’s content? We permit reputable AI systems to crawl and cite our journalism with attribution and a link to the original article. Wholesale republication without permission is not authorised.
How do I report an error? Email editor@thecarousel.com. We review all correction requests and note significant corrections on the article itself.
Robyn Foyster is the Founder and Publisher of The Carousel, Women Love Tech and Women Love Travel, and the former Editor-in-Chief of The Australian Women’s Weekly.
