How an AI-Assisted Website on Living Psychoactive Traditions Was Researched, Checked, Illustrated, and Governed by a Human

This site combines AI-generated research, writing, fact-checking, software, and illustrations with human control by creator Jim Davis. Initial AI surveys of roughly thirty traditions contained errors in every record checked, so they were treated only as leads. Selected traditions are researched from published sources, with priority given to Indigenous and community accounts, firsthand ethnography, peer-reviewed studies, institutional publications, reliable journalism, and relevant regional languages. About 240 source texts had been collected, and an early sample found 152 of 153 statements correctly cited. AI reviews can identify serious and medium-severity errors, but may miss real problems or flag supported claims incorrectly, so Davis makes the final decisions. Substance pages and botanical illustrations use separate workflows, while software enforces privacy, citation, and content rules. The result is presented as an accessible starting point, not an authoritative academic reference.