AI and AI-Assisted Content Disclosure

Effective: August 6, 2026 Last reviewed: August 7, 2026

Salty and Clever may use automated and generative systems to support research organization, source discovery, analysis, outline or draft support, coding, metadata, quality checks, and maintenance. Published editorial posts are written, revised, and finalized by human authors/editors; AI is not the attributed author.

Human authorship and firsthand reporting

AI may not create or simulate our recipe tests, tastings, restaurant visits, product use, comparisons, sensory notes, conversations, or results. When we write in the first person about cooking, tasting, dining, or testing, it reflects a real human experience.

Hard limits

AI output is not evidence or professional judgment. Systems may not invent experience, measurements, sources, tests, professional determinations, or first-person claims. Material factual and safety-sensitive statements require applicable evidence and review.

Labeling

Generated or materially altered media that could be mistaken for documentary evidence must carry provenance and visible labeling. Synthetic results cannot serve as proof of outcomes.

Tools

Interactive tools may use models for structuring or comparing information. They still cannot establish individualized medical, legal, structural, access, or safety determinations.

Publication-specific AI boundaries

AI cannot establish recipe testing, tasting, restaurant visits, allergen safety, zero-proof status, or food-safety compliance. Those claims require actual human experience and/or appropriate authoritative evidence as applicable.

Corrections

Material AI-related errors follow the corrections process.