Last updated: November 12, 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the tools we use to build and run the QTW Do Drop Inn sites. This page lists every place it is used, so you know which parts a person made and which parts an AI made or helped with. AI can be wrong. Where it matters, we check its work, and we tell you how well it does.

Where an AI talks to you or made what you are looking at, we label it right there. The uses that run all the time behind the scenes are listed here instead of on every page.

Our own AI, on our own computers

The chats, guides and sorting described below use AI language models that run on two computers of ours in the same building: normally our web server, and a second computer when the first is busy. What you type to them is not sent to any outside AI company. The privacy page of each site says what is kept and what is not.

Building the sites

Much of the software that runs these sites, including their pages, tools and checks, is written with the help of an AI coding assistant (Claude, made by Anthropic), working under our direction. We decide what gets built and we check changes before they go live. The news stories, cultural items and family content are not written by that assistant.

News (news.qtw-dodropinn.com)

  • The stories are not written by AI. They come from the news organisations and channels named on each story.
  • Subjects are chosen by AI. When a story arrives, an AI reads its text (or a video’s description), writes a short summary for our own use, and picks the subject you see in the filters and topic pages. When no subject fits, it suggests a new one, and a person decides whether to add it. A person checked a random sample of 120 stories in November 2026: of the stories that could be judged, about 93% had the right subject, and a third did not fit our list of subjects at all. We changed how the sorting works and are checking it again.
  • “Ask the AI guide” is an AI chat that explains what to check about a story and where. It never says whether a story is true or false.
  • Read-aloud audio is spoken by a computer-generated voice.
  • Behind the scenes, an AI flags headlines that may be misleading or repeated, and suggests where a news source is based. A person reviews what it flags and approves every location before it is used.

Earth’s Cultures (cultures.qtw-dodropinn.com)

  • “Ask the AI guide” and the “Try it” buttons open an AI chat about the world’s cultures.
  • Cultural items are written by people and read by an administrator before they appear. AI does not write them.
  • The Listen button uses your own device’s built-in voice, not ours.

AI Education (ai-ed.qtw-dodropinn.com)

  • The AI Tutor, the lesson chats, “Try This with AI” buttons and the Chat Locally page are AI chats.
  • The pictures at the top of the lessons were made with an AI image tool (Google’s). The image files carry Google’s Content Credentials saying so.

The main site (www.qtw-dodropinn.com)

  • The Local Chat page is an AI chat.
  • The Listen button uses your own device’s built-in voice, not ours.

Family, Culture Shock and Information Aggregator

These sites have no AI features for visitors. The Information Aggregator app gathers stories from the sources you choose and does not use AI to change or rank them.

How we check the AI

For each AI use whose results you rely on, a person checks a random sample by hand. The more people, animals or places a topic affects, the more accurate the AI has to be. If it falls short, we fix it or stop relying on it, and we check again after every change. An AI never marks its own work. We will update this page with the results.

Questions about how we use AI are welcome; see the Privacy Policy for how to reach us.