AI-assisted content with factual and editorial review
Use AI writing and image tools for drafts and variants without publishing their mistakes. Learn the typical failure modes (invented statistics, quotes, citations and features), a factual and editorial review workflow with a fact-check log, safe handling of confidential data, and the advertising, review and search rules that apply whoever wrote the words.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 55 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Recognize typical failures of AI-generated drafts: invented facts, sources, quotes and features
- Verify each factual claim in an AI-assisted draft against a primary source and record the result
- Decide which content tasks are suitable for AI assistance and which are not
- Keep confidential and personal data out of AI tools your organization hasn't approved
- Describe a product's AI features accurately and avoid AI-generated reviews or testimonials
- Write a reviewer's note that sends a draft back with specific fixes
Course outline
- 1.Reviewing AI-assisted contentVideo · 2 min
- 2.What AI drafting tools do well, and how they failLesson · 15 min
- 3.A factual and editorial review workflowLesson · 16 min
- 4.Rules that apply whoever wrote the wordsLesson · 15 min
- 5.AI-assisted content with factual and editorial review: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 17 questions
- 6.An AI-assisted blog post due at 5 p.m.Scenario
- 7.Final exam11 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- US FTC business blog: Keep your AI claims in check (February 2023)
- US FTC: Operation AI Comply, crackdown on deceptive AI claims and schemes (September 2024)
- US FTC: Final rule banning fake reviews and testimonials (16 CFR Part 465, in effect 21 October 2024)
- US FTC: Advertising FAQs: A guide for small business (substantiation)
- Google Search Central: Guidance on using generative AI content on your website
- US Copyright Office: Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (reports and registration guidance)
- UK ASA/CAP Code, section 3: Misleading advertising (rule 3.7 substantiation)
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