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IMPORTANT!
The most important takeaway from this page is that we don’t write the content ourselves and are not in a position to judge the veracity of accusations. Most of the content consists of user generated content summarized by an AI company. The goal of the summaries is to help users better understand the nature of allegations while remaining skeptical and not making conclusions. So far, the AI has done a decent job presenting unverified allegations as just that while reminding readers not to make conclusions. We view such things as preferable to simply syndicating the original accusations. Unfortunately, the AI has been known to make stuff up, so please let us know of any false claims of fact are found.
Legal Disclaimer – User Generated Content (UGC)
UGC – Definition
Material published using ScreenedConnections.com and comments made in response to such material in which the user name of the publisher is not ScreenedConnections are created by end users on this platform. This user generated content (UGC) is the sole creation of the user who created it. In order to use ScreenedConnections.com’s publishing service users must agree to the Terms of Use (TOU). The TOU is a contract between the end user and ScreenedConnections.com in which the end user agrees to assume full legal responsibility for content published by them through the service.
UCG – Pitfalls
It is possible for UGC to be inaccurate or otherwise objectionable for reasons including, but not necessarily limited to a fabrication by the publisher, inaccurate sources used by the publisher, or a change in real world factors that have rendered the publication out of date. Since false and misleading statements are possible ScreenedConnections.com does not assert that any information published by end users is accurate in any way other than being an accurate representation of data as it exists in a database. This means that every report is a 100% true and genuine representation of a combination of strings consisting of alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric characters as they exists in at any given time in columns grouped by row numbers. This does not mean that the characters are arranged in a manner that represents any true facts, only that the user arranged them in the way that they appear.
Legal Disclaimer – Content Created by ScreenedConnections.com
ScreenedConnections.com is responsible for all static content on this website. Static content is content not derived from our database. Pages consisting solely of static content include the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Legal Disclaimers (this page), Contact Us, Sign Up Form, Members Only Dashboard, and Password Recovery pages. Other pages including the Home Page and individual Member Profiles as well as the ScreenedConnections.com and comments posted there contain a combination of static and dynamic content. Dynamic content is content derived from a database that consists of a combination of user generated content (UGC) and content produced or automatically aggregated by ScreenedConnections.com. Content produced by ScreenedConnections.com is either pure opinion, based on published sources, or opinion based on published sources. ScreenedConnections.com does not assert that information gathered from any published source is in fact true or that opinions based on published sources accurately reflect any true facts. We simply claim that information was published and that we reached conclusions based on it. The original authors of external sources are responsible for the validity of their work.
Legal Disclaimer – Syndicated Content
ScreenedConnections.com may at times elect to display syndicated content from APIs or Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds belonging to other websites. ScreenedConnections.com does not control the content of third party APIs or RSS feeds. Those websites are solely responsible for the content of their feeds.
Legal Disclaimer – Auto-Generated Content
The bulk of the content displayed on ScreenedConnections.com is auto-generated. ScreenedConnections.com is not responsible for content that is automatically harvested from other parts of the internet. This includes content created by users of other platforms. This content is the same as UGC because it is UGC, just not UGC posted on ScreenedConnections.com directly by the user. The users of these other platforms are responsible for this content and to some extent those platforms may be responsible for it. ScreenedConnections.com does not assert that any auto-generated content is true or accurate beyond accurately displaying what was found elsewhere. ScreenedConnections.com does not conduct any sort of pre-publication moderation and is not responsible for the presence of undesirable content in its search results. ScreenedConnections.com does not audit content.
Generative AI Disclaimer
ScreenedConnections.com may at times use artificial intelligence (AI) to write, rewrite, or summarize content. This may involve sending an AI company automated queries consisting of prompts with automatic inputs asking the AI to do any number of things including but not necessarily limited to creating original works of fiction, rewriting original works found elsewhere on the internet, summarizing original works, or potentially complete other tasks AI is capable of. When we use AI we are not responsible for the resulting content.
If prompted to write an original work of fiction: the story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.
We may use re-writing to give users an original look at current events from mainstream media outlets. This process involves simply sending the AI an original article with a request that it be re-written. Re-writing is NOT used with UGC.
In cases of UGC created elsewhere, our system automatically includes it with an API request to the AI company as well as a prompt asking that it be summarized. The original content is created by third parties (original authors) and the summary is created by the AI using servers hosted by the AI company. We simply display content another content creator (the AI) created based on the original work of another content creator. The end result while intended to be nothing more than summaries does at time contain false information like claiming the summary will be updated or that someone has reached out for comment. As an AI language model the AI is not capable of updating a summary or reaching out to people.
Generative AI can significantly improve the user experience when used to summarize UGC found elsewhere. Users are lazy, use bad grammar, and speak profanely. AI summaries are capable of telling users what they can probably expect before clicking links to sources that may contain objectionable content. AI also does a better job reminding readers to view with skepticism the work of others. We do our best to make sure prompts direct the AI to view content from the perspective of a neutral third party. Such content is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act just like auto-generated Google snippets which are also summaries.
AI has been known to produce unreliable results. Always click on source links if available to view originals.
Legal Disclaimer – Third Party Advertising
ScreenedConnections.com features banner, text, and other advertising. The content of these ads and pages that they link to is determined by companies that serve as an intermediary between ScreenedConnections.com and companies whose ads appear on ScreenedConnections.com. We do not control the content of these advertisements and are not responsible for them.
Legal Disclaimer – Stock Images
This site may at times use stock images featuring models in clothes related to the subject matter of the site. WordPress themes often come with royalty free stock images of models wearing relevant clothing. Examples include but are not limited to business themes featuring people in office attire, construction themes featuring people wearing hard hats, and medical themes featuring people dressed like doctors. Such people are not and have never been associated with this website.