AI Use Policy

Optic & Frame uses automation and machine assistance as production tools, under human editorial control. This policy states where machines may and may not act.

What machines do

• Build, deploy, and operate the website; check links, images, and formatting.
• Assist research: gathering and organizing published sources for human editors to verify.
• Draft production scaffolding (templates, structured data, image processing) reviewed before publishing.

What machines do not do

• Invent facts, quotations, specifications, prices, auction results, people, or events. Every factual claim traces to a retrievable source checked by the editorial process.
• Publish alone: nothing reaches the site without passing the build-time verification gates and editorial review.
• Generate imagery presented as photography of a real subject. Product and subject photography is real photography under applicable rights.
• Make purchasing, investment, or legal judgments on a reader's behalf.

Accountability

The byline "Optic & Frame Editorial" means the publication stands behind the piece under these standards, including its corrections policy. Errors are corrected openly whether a human or a machine drafted the copy.