1. The Role of AI in Pedagogy
At NewsToEnglish, AI systems (orchestrated through OpenRouter and ElevenLabs) serve as pedagogical drafting assistants and neural text-to-speech narrators. They never replace journalistic truth.
2. Grounded Prompting & Hallucination Elimination
LLMs are strictly prohibited from generating open-ended news stories from ungrounded prompts. Instead, models are provided with a verified, structured Factual Brief containing corroborated entities, metrics, dates, and source links.
- Models are instructed to reject unsupported speculation.
- Automated consistency validators check every generated draft against the factual brief.
- If an invented claim or contradiction is detected, the draft is flagged and held in the human review queue.
3. Automated Writing Feedback Scope
Automated assessments in our Summary Lab provide targeted guidance regarding word counts, vocabulary coverage, and grammatical syntax. We explicitly remind students that AI writing evaluations are pedagogical aids and do not constitute certified Cambridge, IELTS, or TOEFL examination scores.
4. Model Routing & Transparency
We believe in technological transparency. System administrators can inspect, test, and switch active model engines (including Qwen3.8 Flash, DeepSeek Flash, and Claude models) via the central admin console with live token and cost accounting.