We ask you to disclose. So we go first.
This site tells writers to document their sources and declare their AI use. That obligation is not one-directional — here is everything you would need to judge whether to trust it.
Who writes this
AI Writing Tips is written and published by Karol Leszczyński. It is not a magazine, a collective or an anonymous content operation — one person is accountable for what appears here.
How claims are sourced
Every factual claim in the six research-backed pillars is tied to a peer-reviewed source with a printed page number, listed at the foot of the article. We do not cite blog posts as evidence for empirical claims, and we do not cite a paper we have not read the relevant page of.
Where the evidence is thin or contested, the article says so. Where a finding comes from a single study, the article says that too. A source list is only useful if the absence of one means something.
What we do not claim to know
One section of this site — Workflows — has no research behind it and is labelled that way at the top of every page. It records how specific jobs were actually done, with dates and tool versions. Treat it as experience, not evidence.
Conflicts of interest
The author owns and operates three commercial products relevant to this subject: cytado.com (grounding citations in real academic sources), smart-copy.ai (AI copywriting) and smart-edu.ai (AI for education). Articles on this site sometimes link to them.
Three rules govern that. First, every such link is disclosed at the point it appears, not in a footer.
Second, we do compare our tools against competitors — but only under a method published before the testing starts. The criteria are fixed in advance and stated on the page, every tool is put through the same tests, and the results run whichever way they run. Where our own product loses, the comparison says so and stays up. What we do not publish is the “top 10 AI writing tools” listicle, because that format implies a neutral survey it never is — from us or from anyone else.
Third, the research cited here was selected before the products were mapped to it — the findings are not chosen to flatter what we sell, and where the evidence is inconvenient it still gets published.
How AI is used in these articles
Drafting and editing on this site use AI assistance. Sources are not. Every reference is retrieved from a real bibliographic record and verified against the publisher before it appears, because the central finding of our own fact-checking pillar is that models fabricate citations at rates between roughly 18% and 88% depending on the model and the field. Publishing an unverified reference here would refute the site.
Corrections
If a citation does not resolve, a page number is wrong, or a claim misstates its source, that is a defect and we want to know. Corrections are made in place, with the change and its date noted on the article.