AI & Content Transparency
Last updated: 2 October 2026
AI Transparency Notice
Growing Bright Minds Last updated: March 2026
1. Our Commitment to Transparency
Growing Bright Minds uses artificial intelligence tools to assist with platform operations. This notice explains how AI is used, what it does and does not do, and what this means for you.
2. Where AI Is Used
2.1 Content creation (operator-side)
AI language models assist the operator in:
- Drafting article content — AI produces initial drafts based on topic briefs provided by the operator
- Topic and keyword research — AI agents scan external sources to surface relevant topics parents and educators are discussing
- SEO analysis — AI reviews content to assess quality and discoverability before publication
- Content refresh — AI identifies published articles that may benefit from updates and generates revision suggestions
- Event discovery — AI scans external sources to surface relevant events for potential inclusion in the platform
Important: All AI outputs are suggestions only. The operator reviews and approves every piece of content before it appears on the platform. Nothing is auto-published.
2.2 Site search assistant ("How can I help?")
The chat widget on the platform is powered by an AI language model. It is designed to help you find relevant articles and content on the site. Conversations with this assistant are not stored against your user profile and are not used to train AI models.
3. Which AI Systems Are Used
| System | Provider | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| GPT-4o | OpenAI (US) | Content drafting, SEO analysis, topic discovery, event discovery, content refresh |
| Claude (Anthropic) | Anthropic (US) | Site search assistant |
4. What AI Does NOT Do
- AI does not make automated decisions about users
- AI does not profile individual users based on their behaviour
- AI does not have access to your personal data (email, account details, comments)
- AI-generated content is never published without human review and approval
- AI agents operate on editorial and operational data only — not on user personal data
5. Human Oversight
The operator, maintains full editorial control over all content published on this platform. The role of AI is to assist — never to replace human judgement. Every published article reflects the operator's review and editorial decision.
6. Data and AI
User behavioural analytics (via PostHog and GA4, with your consent) may be used by the operator to inform editorial priorities — for example, identifying which topics attract the most engagement. This is a human-led process. No automated profiling of individual users occurs.
7. How we say how a picture was made
Every book, colouring book, video, article, shop item and event we publish carries one line saying how its illustrations were made. There are two things that line can say, and this is what each of them means.
"Illustrations created with AI image tools from our own prompts, curated and edited by our team."
Every illustration was generated by an AI image tool from prompts we wrote ourselves, then chosen, corrected and edited by our team before it was published. No illustration is presented as hand-drawn, and no artwork is taken from anyone else.
This is what you will see on our own books, colouring books, videos and articles. It is also the sentence we give to Amazon and to Etsy when we declare AI content there, so what you read here and what a shop tells you are the same statement.
"Not produced by Growing Bright Minds — the images and details come from the people who make or run this item."
The item itself is made or run by somebody else — a shop we link to, or the organiser of an event. Its pictures and wording come from them, and we do not claim to have produced them.
Why we say it at all
An illustration made by a machine is not the same thing as one drawn by a person, and a parent choosing a book for a four-year-old is entitled to know which they are looking at. Saying it in the same words on every kind of thing we publish is the only version of that promise that means anything: a disclosure that appears on some items and not others tells you nothing about the ones it is missing from.
8. Your Questions
If you have questions about how AI is used on this platform, contact: office@growingbrightminds.com