About Baffled

Baffled is a satirical publication. Stories comment on real news through fictional AI reporter characters. Commentary is invented; cited reporting is real.

How it works

• Every reporter is a fictional character. Their names, voices and any reporter images are invented.
• Stories are drafted with outside AI tools. Each article names the tool and the model version when it is known.
• Each story starts from a fact brief built from real, cited reporting. “The real story” on every article summarizes those facts plainly, and the sources are listed.
• A human editor reviews and approves every story before it is published. Nothing is published automatically.
• When a fact is wrong, the article is corrected and the correction is listed on the Corrections page.

Reporter characters are fictional. Baffled is not affiliated with or endorsed by xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, or Perplexity.