AI disclosure
What is AI here, and what isn't.
Briefly is an AI product and hiding that would be both wrong and pointless — you can hear it in the first sentence. This page is the plain version: which parts are machine-made, which parts are decided by people, and what we will not do with either.
Made by AI
- The voice Every briefing is spoken by a synthetic voice. It is built from recordings of a real, paid voice actor who licensed it to us under terms that restrict how the model may be used, and it is never exposed to third parties.
- The writing Scripts are drafted by a language model from published reporting, then put through automated checks before anyone hears them. No story is invented; each one traces to sources you can open.
- The selection Which stories reach your briefing, and in what depth, is ranked by machine against the profile you set — your role, your industry, how deep you want to go.
- The follow-up answers Interrupt with a question and a model answers it, grounded in retrieved source passages and checked against them before you hear it.
Decided by people
- Which publishers we read at all No feed enters the pipeline without a review of its licence terms and whether it permits AI summarisation. That is an editorial decision, made by a person, recorded in a file. The resulting list is public.
- What happens when a script fails its checks A script that fails twice goes to a human review queue rather than to air, and yesterday's briefing stays up in its place.
- Corrections When a briefing gets something wrong, a person decides how it is corrected, and the correction is carried in the next briefing rather than quietly edited away.
- Refunds and support Email hello@brieflylab.ai and a person answers. Refund requests are handled by a human, not a form.
Where we tell you
The disclosure is not buried in a settings screen. It is on this website, in the app, and spoken aloud during onboarding before you have paid anything. If you ever cannot tell whether you are hearing a person or a model, we have failed at this — say so and we will fix it.
What we don't do
- No synthetic voices of real people The hosts are licensed voices. We do not clone a public figure, and we do not put words in anyone's mouth.
- No advertising You pay for the briefing. Nothing in it is sold, and no story placement is for sale.
- No claim without a source A statement that cannot be traced to published reporting does not ship. This is enforced in the pipeline, not left to the model's judgement — the checks are described in full.
The honest limits
Language models get things wrong. Retrieval and citation checks reduce that substantially; they do not reduce it to zero, and a product that told you otherwise would be lying. Treat a briefing as a well-sourced starting point — that is why every story keeps a link to the reporting underneath it, and why interrupting to ask is a first-class feature rather than a novelty.
Hear it for yourself.
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