How we make our news and rankings

How we choose sources

• Closest to the facts first

  We read official announcements and filings first, then specialist publications that cover the field, then video channels that test and explain things themselves.

• One story, shown once

  When several outlets carry the same story it is shown once, with the original overseas report first. The other outlets are listed inside the story.

• Unreliable sources are dropped

  Sources that mix in sensational content or cannot be checked are removed from the list.

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Where we use AI

LastAI uses AI such as Claude and GPT to write and summarise. Anything made by AI is labelled as such. Here is where and how it is used.

• Article summaries

  AI reads the original and writes the summary. A person does not check each one, so a summary never replaces the original and always links to it.

• Video summaries

  Written from the video's title and description, not from watching it, so it may differ from what is said in the video.

• Daily AI Report

  AI writes it from public material. A review step then checks each sentence against that material and fixes or removes anything it does not support. A report that passes goes up straight away in the morning (it is made at 6:30 a.m. Korean time, with further tries at 7:30 and 8:30 if that fails). A person does not read each one before it goes up, and a report the review stops is not published automatically. Every source is listed at the end.

• AI recipes

  AI picks a hands-on topic and the AI tools to use from recent news (LastAI news, Hacker News and GeekNews) and writes a draft, and another AI checks that draft against the material it read. A draft is never published as it is. An editor follows it from start to finish in the real tools, rewrites the parts that do not work as written, and publishes it only once it does, so there is not a new recipe every day. Each recipe lists the material read, the date it was followed through and the AI models used (the first four list the material only).

• AI Encyclopedia

  New concepts in reports, recipes, briefings and in news covered by more than one outlet become encyclopedia articles written by AI and checked in a separate AI review. New articles cover definitions, background, principles, uses, limits and examples, and link to the publication’s actual source material. Dotted underlines lead to concept articles, using fixed matching rules for concept names and aliases.

• First steps by field

  The beginner's guide to each field was written by AI and checked again for accuracy before publishing. The only numbers in the text are ones that do not change, such as the height of the space station. Rankings change quickly, so they are not written into the text; the 'Who to watch now' box shows the LastAI Index as it is.

• Timelines by field

  The events on the timelines were chosen and described by AI, and each date and fact was checked against the source listed with it (an official announcement, a paper or Wikipedia). Anything the sources could not confirm is left out. The timelines do not grow by themselves; new events are checked and added by hand.

• Ranking entry introductions

  Introductions marked as written by AI come from the entry's Wikipedia article and the introduction on its official site (for apps, the app store listing). A review step then checks each sentence against those sources, and an introduction they do not support is not published. They leave out things that change quickly, such as user counts and rankings, and the sources are listed under each one.

• Report and recipe illustrations

  The comic-style pictures are AI-drawn illustrations, not real photographs or real scenes. The one exception is the screen captures in recipe steps: those are real screens, captured while following the recipe in the actual tools.

• Ranking scores

  Not decided by AI. Public numbers go into a fixed formula, and the same formula is used for every entry.

How we correct mistakes

• Tell us about a mistake and we will check the evidence and fix it. Write to holytasks@gmail.com
• Changes that alter the meaning are recorded in the correction log below with the date. Typos and other changes that keep the meaning are not listed.
• When the ranking formula changes we raise its version and record it in the methodology change log.

Correction log

• 2026-11-12·Editorial principles — Report and recipe illustrations

  We wrote that every picture in reports and recipes is an AI illustration and none is a real photograph, but the steps of the 11 November recipe carried real screen captures taken while following it in the actual tools. The text now says that comic-style pictures are AI illustrations and the screen captures in recipe steps are real screens.

• 2026-11-12·Editorial principles — AI recipes

  We wrote that AI recipes go up automatically every morning without a person reading them, but that automatic publishing had already been stopped on 11 November. The text now describes the current process: AI writes a draft, and a recipe is published only after it has been followed through in the real tools.

Ads and affiliates stay out of the rankings

• LastAI is run by LastAI (Korean business registration no. 660-14-02127).
• Advertising and affiliate deals are not inputs to the ranking score, and ranks are not moved by hand.
• Links that may pay us a commission are labelled 'Affiliate link (commission)'. Ads carry an ad label. If a story is ever sponsored, the story will say so.
• Rankings and data are not investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell.

We do not republish other people's work in full

We show a headline, a short summary and a link to the original, never the full article. Copyright stays with each publisher and creator. To ask us to take something down, write to the address below and we will act once we have checked it.