Plain-language disclosure
Osoyoos News uses custom software and locally operated AI tools to monitor selected public sources, identify local relevance, summarize source material and help prepare readable local-news updates.
What AI may do
AI may help organize facts from a source, rewrite an outside-media report in fresh wording, prepare excerpts, classify articles, identify duplicate coverage and flag items that need human review.
What AI may not do
The system is instructed not to invent facts, create unsupported quotes, add outside background without evidence, treat publisher names as locality evidence or publish unsupported claims. In short: helpful assistant, not town gossip.
Official notices
Town of Osoyoos notices are handled differently from outside-media reports. They may be published directly as attributed municipal information, with boilerplate removed for readability.
Human review
Items may be withheld for administrator review when the source is thin, unclear, off-area, duplicative, too close to the original wording or otherwise not ready for automatic publication.
Limits
AI-assisted systems can still make mistakes. Readers are encouraged to review source links and report concerns through the correction form. Around here, a good correction is more useful than a perfect-looking mistake.