How do you use AI for news without taking other outlets' reporting?
By crediting what you didn't report and starting from what you did. In news, the ethical line isn't whether a machine wrote the text; it is whether the facts someone else reported are credited and linked, and whether their wording is copied. With Naito, the new text is written from facts, never copied, and each article ends with a link to the story it is based on. Naito doesn't report anything itself, so it fits general stories your team can't reach and your own material, not exclusives.
Who it's for
Newsrooms, radio stations, portals and publishers who want to use AI without giving up the practice of crediting sources, and the people who have to decide whether to allow it.
Who it's not for
Anyone looking to publish another outlet's exclusive or investigative work as their own. Naito doesn't report, and it isn't built for that.
How to do it with Naito
Start with your own material
Turn your YouTube videos and the URLs you provide into articles on demand. That is your own reporting in more formats, so the only credit is yours.
Keep the source credit on
By default every article ends with "With information from [outlet]" and a link to the story it is based on, in the article's language. You can turn off the automatic display in Settings, but the link stays in the data Naito delivers and in the article's structured data.
Exclude outlets you don't want to use
In Settings, list the outlets Naito must never use as a base, such as direct competitors. It applies to future articles. Links you submit yourself are never blocked.
Review before it goes live
Choose the approval queue. Each card shows the title, the description and the image text, the sources with their links, and every claim next to the sentence it came from.
Say what is machine-assisted
The AI-use notice is on by default for new accounts, and you write its wording. Readers, and the outlets you credit, should know how the text was made.
Why it works better this way
Credit is built in, not added by hand
The credit is part of the article (a visible line, a link and structured data), so it doesn't depend on someone remembering to add it.
New text, not a copy
Naito reads the story to extract the facts and writes a new text from them, from several sources when there are. It isn't designed to republish or closely paraphrase.
Outlets stay in control
Publishers who don't want to be read can block NaitoBot in robots.txt, and each Naito customer can exclude outlets from their own sources.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this guide
Is it ethical to use other outlets' stories as a source?
Using published facts as a starting point is normal in newsrooms, as long as the original is credited and the text isn't copied. Naito credits and links the original story. Whether it fits your editorial policy is your newsroom's call.
Does Naito do original reporting?
No. It doesn't interview, investigate or break exclusives. It writes from facts already published and from material you provide.
Can an outlet stop Naito from reading its pages?
Yes. Adding NaitoBot to its robots.txt stops Naito from fetching its pages from the next run. The NaitoBot page explains how.
Will this replace journalists on my team?
It isn't built for that. It covers general stories your team can't reach and turns your own material into more formats. What gets published, and how much review it needs, is up to you.
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