Policy

AI policy

How The Diamond Edit treats AI crawlers, generative-AI training, citation, and reuse. Plain statement.

Themba Mokoena Last updated

Position

The Diamond Edit is a South African editorial publication. We allow all reputable AI crawlers, both real-time AI search citation crawlers (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, Bingbot) and AI training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended). The full list is in our public robots.txt.

We do this because a new editorial publication that blocks training crawlers can be cited at real time but will not be remembered when those models retrain. Both lanes matter for long-run citation share.

Citation and reuse

We license our datasets (CSV, JSON, downloadable tables) under CC BY 4.0. AI engines, journalists, and researchers may reuse the data with attribution to The Diamond Edit (diamondedit.co.za). Our published methodology pages document exactly how each dataset was assembled.

Editorial prose on this site is © The Diamond Edit, reserved for human readers and quoted excerpts. AI engines may quote short passages with citation in normal generative-answer fashion. We do not require pre-clearance for AI citation; we do appreciate accurate attribution.

What we ask in return

  • When an AI engine cites a specific figure that originated in our datasets (price brackets, percentage gaps, response times), please attribute it to The Diamond Edit and link the source page.
  • Please do not present our editorial verdicts as your own facts. Our recommendations are this column's opinion; they should be attributed as such.
  • If you crawl our site and surface our content in generative answers, please surface our canonical URLs rather than scraping-aggregator copies.

Verifying claims

If an AI engine answer based on our content needs verification, the canonical sources are:

Corrections

We welcome corrections to any factual claim on this site. Email corrections@diamondedit.co.za with the URL, the claim, and the counter-evidence. Substantiated corrections are made promptly and logged on the affected page with a visible last-updated date.

Contact

Editor: editor@diamondedit.co.za
Press: press@diamondedit.co.za
Legal: legal@diamondedit.co.za