Properly sourcing a single claim takes between 25 and 45 minutes. An article with fifteen citations means eight hours of work that almost nobody actually does — which is how misinformation slips through without any bad faith involved. Meanwhile, generative AI produces text with plausible-looking citations in seconds. The gap between how fast we can produce and how slowly we can verify has never been wider.
The first half of this workshop is about craft: building, step by step and against the clock, one perfect citation. Just one. The second half is about scale: how a small editorial team can use AI-assisted development to build its own working system — one that draws on its own library of trusted sources rather than whatever the open web happens to return, and that produces content structured to be read, understood and cited by generative engines.
