AI Content Policy
Last updated: April 24, 2026
We use AI tools as part of how we research and draft hunting content. We don't pretend we don't. This page explains exactly where AI is in the loop, what humans do, and what kinds of things AI is not allowed to decide.
Where AI helps
- Research synthesis. Pulling regulation language and season structure from agency documents into a working draft an editor can verify.
- First drafts. Some article drafts are produced with AI assistance and then rewritten, fact-checked, and re-edited by a hunter on our team before publication. The published version is always edited prose, not raw AI output.
- Internal tools. Our internal workflow (link checks, AI-detection scans, banned-phrase audits, sentence-rhythm checks) uses automated tooling, including AI, to flag issues for human editors.
- The AI Hunt Advisor product. Our paid AI Hunt Advisor (included in the Pro tier) is an AI feature by design. It runs on Claude and is clearly labeled. Hunters know they are talking to an AI when they use it.
Where AI does not get the last word
- Draw odds, harvest data, success rates, and unit logistics. These come from state agencies and structured datasets, not from a language model. See Data Sources.
- First-hand experience claims. If an article says "we hunted this unit in 2024," that means a member of our team actually did. We do not generate fabricated field anecdotes. If a topic warrants tactical advice but no member of our team has direct experience, the article relies on agency data and other published sources — and says so.
- Final editorial decisions. What gets published, what gets cut, which units we cover, which gear we recommend, and how we frame outfitter reviews are decisions made by humans on our team, not by an AI.
- Corrections. When a reader reports an error, the response is written by a human. See Corrections Policy.
AI crawlers
Our robots.txt explicitly allows major AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, Applebot-Extended). We're a hunting publisher; we want our articles to be discoverable by both human readers and the AI tools they use.
Questions
If you have a question about how a specific article was produced, ask via our contact form with subject "Editorial question." We'll tell you.