A newsroom’s AI.
Thursday AI is made by The Thursday Times, a Pakistani newspaper in English and Urdu. It answers from what we have reported and from what the record says, and from nothing else.
Thursday AI is made by The Thursday Times, a Pakistani newspaper in English and Urdu. It answers from what we have reported and from what the record says, and from nothing else.
Pakistan has plenty of AI that answers fluently. It has very little that answers accurately, in Urdu, from the record. Thursday AI is built on three rules.
An answer that cannot show where it came from is not given. Every answer carries its sources, the date they were read and the person who checked.
The Thursday Times and the official record. No other outlets, no social media, no anonymous pages, and no memory of the internet.
Editors decide how it answers and read what it answers. When it is wrong, the correction is public.
A small desk inside the newsroom. Their names are on the answers they check.
The desk writes the rules Thursday AI answers by, reads a sample of its answers every day, signs off every verdict, and lists every correction. Nobody on the desk is paid by the model provider.
The language model is licensed from Thursday Media International. It writes the sentences. It does not decide what is true, and it is not allowed to remember facts for us.
The Thursday Times reports Pakistan in English and Urdu. Thursday AI is its front door.
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Every piece is marked as news or opinion, dated, and signed.
The paper’s corrections policy applies to Thursday AI, line for line.
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