About AI-generated and AI-assisted content
Wildlife Vagabond actively uses artificial intelligence in the production and maintenance of parts of the site’s content. The aim is not to automate away editorial work, but to use AI as a tool for covering more research, keeping existing material up to date and communicating biology at a level that is both scientifically useful and accessible.
I also believe it is important to be clear about how that content is made.
Wildlife in the News
Stories in Wildlife in the News / Nytt fra dyreverden are produced with extensive assistance from artificial intelligence.
AI is used to help find and review research and other original documentation, extract relevant results, draft stories, create English and Norwegian versions and perform parts of the editorial quality-control process.
This is not a fully automated publishing process.
The workflow, prompts and editorial instructions have been developed by me through several weeks of testing and adjustment. I have spent substantial effort calibrating how AI should handle research, how much methodology and technical information should be retained, how advanced biological topics should be explained, which results matter, and the scientific and linguistic level Wildlife Vagabond should aim for.
News stories are expected to be based on the primary source or other relevant original documentation. AI is not the authority for the scientific content; the sources are.
Before a story is treated as complete, the workflow includes both a primary-source check and a separate editorial review of the content, language, biological depth and scientific parity between the English and Norwegian versions.
I do not necessarily read every individual News Desk story personally before publication. Instead, I remain editorially responsible for the system: I develop and adjust the standards, supervise the workflow, review results and carry out my own checks and spot reviews.
Species articles
The species pages have a different history.
The original pages, their structure and large parts of the content on Wildlife Vagabond were created by me. Artificial intelligence is now used as a tool to improve, expand and update these pages, including checking newer scientific information, improving language and structure and identifying possible omissions.
I review these pages myself and make my own editorial decisions and corrections.
AI assistance therefore does not mean that the species pages were generated from scratch by a language model. Instead, AI has become an increasingly important tool in their continued development.
AI can make mistakes
Even with good sources, detailed instructions and multiple review stages, both AI and people can make mistakes.
A language model can misunderstand a result, give too much weight to the wrong part of a study, phrase something too strongly, use an incorrect name or miss important context. Editorial review reduces that risk, but cannot remove it completely.
I therefore welcome help from readers. If you notice a factual error, an incorrect species name, missing nuance, a poor translation, a source that appears to have been misinterpreted or anything else that should be corrected, I am very grateful if you let me know. Good corrections make Wildlife Vagabond better.
Why I use AI
Wildlife Vagabond is a large project containing information about many species, research, observations, photographs and nature destinations. AI makes it possible to maintain and develop much more of this material than I could manage manually on my own.
For me, the key question is therefore not whether AI is used, but how it is used.
I want AI to function as a tool within clear scientific and editorial boundaries — not as a replacement for sources, editorial judgment or responsibility.
The overall editorial responsibility for the content on Wildlife Vagabond remains with me.
Last updated 21 September 2026. This page is updated when Wildlife Vagabond’s working methods change substantially.