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title: '**Checks**'
description: >-
  **Checks** — in this material, the verification steps (guardrails) a writer
  sets around AI-assisted work to confirm the output is publishable and still
  their own.
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# \*\*Checks\*\*

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/checks-55cbbaef6739

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**Checks** — in this material, the verification steps (guardrails) a writer sets around AI-assisted work to confirm the output is publishable and still their own.

In the channel's material on writing with AI, **checks** appear as the *guardrails* professional writers set around AI-assisted work — the habit of verifying that output is publishable and still their own, rather than accepting a draft at face value [^cddd81ae-bb3c-57c1-9ec9-0e9e2f474f98]. The framing is that AI can touch every stage of the writing life — research, ideation, drafting, editing, distribution — and the writers who use it well treat it as a system to engineer, with checks as part of that system's controls [^cddd81ae-bb3c-57c1-9ec9-0e9e2f474f98].- **Checks** = verification steps writers build around AI-assisted drafting.- Their purpose is twofold: keep output **publishable** and keep the writing **yours**.- They are part of treating AI as a system to engineer, not a magic button.