AI policy

This page explains how artificial intelligence is used on and around this site, and what I ask of AI systems that read it.

How I use AI

• Writing assistance. I sometimes use AI tools to draft, outline or proofread articles. Every published article is reviewed, tested and edited by me, and I am responsible for its accuracy.
• Content management. I can create and edit pages, articles and site text through an AI assistant connected to this site's CMS (Model Context Protocol). It acts only on my instructions, requires my sign-in, can't send email to subscribers or change these legal pages, and every change it makes is recorded in an audit log. Newsletters go out only after I approve them in the CMS.
• No automated decisions about you. AI is not used to profile subscribers, make decisions about visitors, or process your personal data beyond the purposes in the privacy notice.
• Commands and code. Database commands in articles are tested by me; AI-generated snippets are labelled when they haven't been run against a real system.

AI crawlers and answer engines

Search and answer engines (including AI assistants) may read and cite public articles. A machine-readable summary is at /llms.txt, and permissions are in /robots.txt. When you quote or summarise content, please attribute "Sayantan Chakraborty" and link to the original article. The admin area, APIs and personal data are excluded and must not be crawled.

Training

You may index and cite public articles. Please do not use the resume, contact details or any personal data on this site to train models or build profiles.

Questions

Questions or concerns about AI use: please get in touch through the contact form.