A quality score is not a fact-check.
Acta AI markets hard against slop, and its centrepiece is a visible "Acta Score" that rates every article across six dimensions. Here's the catch, in Acta's own words: "the score is a guide, not a gate, you can always publish regardless of score." It measures quality and leaves the decision to you. Mastheads enforces it: every claim is checked against its sources, and a piece that fails a gate is held or dropped, not published with a low number attached. A score is an opinion about an article; a gate is a decision about whether it ships.
Acta shows you a number and lets you publish anyway. Its own docs state the Acta Score is advisory, never a block, and while it injects citations and scores them as one input, nothing cross-checks each claim against a source and refuses to ship. There's no AI-disclosure or compliance layer, no named-byline system, and it's a single-author blog tool, one person, one site, not a newsroom.
The tape.
- A source gate that can actually refuse to publish an unsupported claim, not a score you're free to override.
- A real newsroom: multiple editions in five native languages under named bylines, not one English blog.
- EU AI Act disclosure, GDPR and DMCA handling, per-publication data isolation, and a full authenticity trace, none of which Acta offers.
- Quality gates that hold or drop a weak piece automatically, so "slop" is prevented, not just measured.
What you get that Acta AI doesn't.
Sourced, or it doesn't ship
Every article is written from cited sources and cross-checked against them before delivery. A judge vets each source for the specific story - right event, right dates, real substance - and a topic that can't be properly sourced is dropped, not padded. No source, no article.
A real editor of record
Nothing publishes anonymously. Each article carries a real named byline and a human editor of record, accountable for editorial standards, source policy, and disputes - the person whose name is on the door.
Review by default; auto-publish you can defend
Independent quality gates can hold any article for one-click human review, and nothing ships silently. Auto-publish is opt-in and runs the very same gates - trustworthy when it's unattended, not merely unchecked.
Compliance built in, not bolted on
EU AI Act Article 50 disclosure, GDPR export and erasure, a registered DMCA agent, and a pre-publish copyright gate that stops a rights-risky image before it goes live - standard on every plan.
A newsroom in five languages
English, German, Norwegian, Swedish, and Dutch - each written in its own grammar and idiom rather than translated, held to the same quality bar, all under one subscription.
Your content, never locked in
Physical per-publication data isolation, a read-only pull API, and one-click export to WordPress WXR, Ghost, and Markdown with every image. You own the articles outright - no royalty, no attribution back to us.
Acta and Mastheads agree on the enemy, slop, and disagree on the cure. Acta measures quality and shows you a score; you decide. Mastheads enforces it: every claim is checked against its sources, and a piece that fails a gate is held or dropped, not published with a low number attached. Measuring slop is marketing. Refusing to publish it is the product.
Under the hood: it discovers stories in your niche, writes them in your voice, fact-checks against sources, illustrates, and publishes to your CMS, on your schedule.
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