Editorial Standards

How articles are written

Articles on Quantum Voidare written using a large language model (Amazon Bedrock’s Amazon Nova family) with human-authored prompts, topic guidance, and section-level structure. The model drafts the prose; a curator selects topics, sets voice and depth, monitors output, and removes work that fails quality checks. Individual articles are not rewritten by a human line-by-line before publication. If you would call anything on this site “AI-assisted,” that would be accurate.

This approach is disclosed to readers via this page, via the site footer, and via a note at the bottom of every article. We do not attribute articles to fictional authors. Where a byline appears, it names the site as the publisher, not a person.

Sources and citations

When an article is grounded in a primary source (an arXiv preprint, a PLOS paper, an official research announcement, a press release, or a linked news story), that source is credited and linked at the bottom of the article. Articles that are general explainers of well-established science or engineering concepts do not always have a single source to cite; in those cases the article is a synthesis of consensus knowledge rather than a report on new findings.

We do not fabricate citations. If a citation appears on this site, the underlying source exists and was passed to the model as part of the article’s composition, or was verified after generation.

Images

Article images are either (a) licensed stock photography from Pexels, credited in the article footer, or (b) generated by an AI image model (Stability AI’s Stable Image Core, hosted on Amazon Bedrock) using photorealistic prompts. AI-generated images are not intended to depict any real person, real product, or real event. Photo credits, where applicable, appear in the article license line.

What we don’t claim

• We do not claim that every article has been reviewed by a subject-matter expert before publication. It has not.
• We do not claim that our articles constitute original research or original reporting. They are explainers, syntheses, and summaries.
• We do not attribute articles to individual human authors who did not write them.
• We do not present AI-generated images as photographs of real events or real people.

Corrections

If you find a factual error, a garbled explanation, or a broken citation, please tell us. We will investigate every substantive correction request, update the article if the report is accurate, and record the correction in the article’s revision history (surfaced via the article’s modification date).

For serious errors (misidentified science, misrepresented findings, defamatory statements about a real person or organization), we will remove or substantially rewrite the article. Send corrections via the contact form with the article URL and the specific passage in question.

Publishing cadence

Quantum Void publishes several articles per day and one quiz per week under an automated schedule. The schedule enforces a per-day cap, avoids topic duplication against the trailing sixty days of output, and rejects generation attempts that fail structural or quality checks.

Ownership and independence

Quantum Void is an independent publication. It does not accept sponsored content or paid placements. If that changes in the future, this page will be updated in the same publish that introduces the change, and sponsored articles will be labeled explicitly at the article level, not only in a policy page.

Feedback

Questions about this policy, or suggestions for how to make our editorial process more transparent, are welcome. Reach us via the contact form.