How we use AI

One Percent Lows is a small, mostly automated news site. Here's exactly how a story gets made.

1. Collecting

Every hour, a program checks the public news feeds of about twenty outlets and official sources, such as Tom's Hardware, PC Gamer, NVIDIA, AMD and Steam. It only reads pages those sites allow automated tools to read.

2. Sorting and merging

An AI model (Google's Gemma) drops stories that aren't about PC hardware or gaming. When several outlets cover the same news, we merge them into one story so you get every angle in one place.

3. Writing the summary

The same AI writes a short summary in our house style. It may only use facts from the sources, must label rumors as rumors, and must say when outlets disagree. A story covered by one outlet gets a short summary that sends you to the original. A story covered by many gets a fuller write-up that combines them.

4. Automatic checks

Every summary is checked automatically before it goes live: for wording copied from a source, for the right length, and for phrases our style rules ban. A summary that passes is published straight away. One that doesn't waits for a person to read it, fix it, and approve or reject it. AI can get exact specs, prices and dates wrong, so the sources are always one click away.

5. Credit

Every story links to every outlet that covered it. We summarize and link; we never republish articles. If you spot a mistake, or you run one of our sources and want something changed, let us know.