About

Uncursored is about using AI to simplify your life and unplug, so there is more time and attention for human things: people, craft, nature, health and community.

Each article shows one practical way to hand a chore to AI, or to step away from a device. Every how-to has a short path you can follow in about ten minutes. The aim is that you finish reading and close the laptop.

It is not an AI news site, and it is not about getting more work done. AI is treated here as a tool: used on purpose, then put down.

Who runs it

The site is run by Ed. He decides what it covers, sets the rules the articles are held to, and is responsible for what is published.

Ed also plans to write some pieces himself, including an essay for each monthly theme. Those are labelled as his.

AI disclosure

Most articles on this site are written by AI. This section explains how, so you can decide how much weight to give them.

What the labels mean

AI-generated means an AI model wrote the article. No person wrote it, and it is not presented as if one did.
Written by Ed (shown as “By Ed” in article lists) means Ed wrote the piece himself, in his own words.

Every article carries one of these labels in a banner at the top. The same label appears in article lists and at the start of each item in the RSS feed. AI-generated articles are never given a person’s name as their author.

How an article is made

AI-generated articles are produced with Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, working through a fixed series of stages. Each stage is a separate AI pass with one job.

Research. The AI looks for at least three reputable sources, fetches them and reads them. It takes notes on what each source supports.
Draft. The article is written from those notes only.
Fact-check. A separate pass, working without the research notes, is told to fetch every cited source again and check each factual claim against it. Anything the sources do not support is corrected or removed. If the article does not hold up, it is not published.
Edit. The article is edited for clarity and voice, and its headline, summary and tags are tidied. A further pass then compares the edited version with the fact-checked one and puts back any wording where a fact was changed.
Build check. The site will not build with an AI-generated article that is not marked as having passed the fact-check, or that lists fewer than three sources. The pipeline also checks that every outside link in the article is one of its listed sources.

If any stage fails, nothing is published that day. That is expected. Skipping a day is better than publishing something shaky.

Every one of these stages is carried out by AI, including the fact-check. It is AI checking AI’s work against the sources. That is a real check, and it is not the same as a person checking.

Who approves a post

The pipeline can run in two modes, and they are different.

Review mode. The finished article waits as a proposed change. It is published only when Ed approves it.
Auto mode. An article that passes every stage is published without a person reading it first.

Review mode is the default. If the site moves to auto mode, this page will be updated to say so.

The launch articles

The articles the site launched with were not produced by the automated run. They went through the same stages, in the same order, carried out by AI agents under Ed’s direction.

What “fact-checked” means

At the foot of each article there is a line saying whether it passed a fact-check before publishing.

It means this: the article’s factual claims were checked against the sources listed with it, as those sources read on the “accessed” date shown beside each one.

It does not mean:

that the sources themselves are right. A source can be wrong, or out of date.
that the source still says the same thing. Web pages change, and prices, settings and policies change with them.
that the article is free of errors. A check lowers the chance of a mistake. It does not remove it.
that the article is professional advice. Articles are general information, not medical, legal, financial or safety advice.

Pieces Ed writes himself do not have to go through this pipeline. The line at the foot of the article says whether a fact-check was run.

How sources are shown

Writers are held to one rule: a factual claim is linked to its source at the point where it is made. Every source is then listed again under “Sources” at the end of the article, with its title, its publisher where one is given, and the date it was read.

If something matters to you, follow the link and read the source yourself. If you find a mistake, please report it.

What the site does not do

There are no accounts, no comments, no advertising and no tracking scripts. The privacy page has the details.

There are no affiliate links or sponsored articles at present. If that changes, it will be disclosed on the page where it applies. See the terms.