About and corrections
A daily brief of AI-drafted, human edited and verified news shorts.
- What this is
- The Delta Desk is a personal project, built and edited by one
person. It carries no advertising, no sponsorship and no tracking today,
and it is deliberately kept out of search engines while it is being
built — a working draft in public rather than a launched
publication. If it ever takes commercial form, this page and the
Privacy page change first, not after.
- Why it exists
- Three reasons, in honest order. To test whether a daily publication
can be produced by one person using AI drafting under human editorial
control — every short is machine-drafted and human-edited, and the
process is described below. To test whether a good reading experience
can be delivered without tracking, profiling or cookie banners —
the Privacy page holds that promise. And because
the editor wanted a brief like this to exist.
- How these are made
- Each short starts as a draft written by a large language model, which
searches for the day’s significant stories in a small number of
subject areas and summarises them. No draft is published automatically.
Every one is read, checked against its sources and edited by a person
before it appears here.
- What the editor is responsible for
- Confirming that the facts, figures and attributions in each short are
supported by the sources cited; editing the text rather than passing a
model draft through untouched; and writing the “why it
matters” line, which is editorial judgement and not a summary.
- Sources
- Every short links the outlets it draws on. The aim is always the
original publisher rather than an aggregator or a site carrying someone
else’s wire copy. Some sources are Vietnamese-language and are
marked (vi); those shorts are summarised into English. How
source material is used — and why no publisher’s original
text appears on this site — is set out in full on
Sources & fair use.
- Corrections
- Errors are corrected in place rather than quietly rewritten. When a
published short is edited, the page carries an “Updated”
timestamp so a reader can see it changed. If something here is wrong,
write to contact@sumitnangia.com
with the link and what is wrong, and it will be corrected or the short
withdrawn.
- Privacy
- What this site collects about its readers — today and as
planned — is on its own page: Privacy.
- Editor
- The Delta Desk is written and edited by Sumit Nangia.
Reach me at contact@sumitnangia.com.