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  "platform": "Medium",
  "url": "https://medium.com",
  "checked": "2026-10-27",
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      "topic": "ai_content",
      "status": "allowed_with_conditions",
      "conditions": "Allowed to publish, but Medium's stated position is 'for human storytelling, not AI generated writing'. Disclosed AI writing gets ordinary distribution rules; undisclosed AI-generated or AI-assisted text is limited to the author's own network.",
      "quote": "Medium is for human storytelling, not AI generated writing.",
      "source": "https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/22576852947223-Artificial-Intelligence-AI-content-policy",
      "source_updated": null
    },
    {
      "topic": "promotion",
      "status": "prohibited",
      "conditions": "Monetisation: AI-generated writing can't be paywalled in the Partner Program, disclosed or not; violations can mean removal from the paywall or loss of Partner Program enrollment. AI content made mainly for SEO/affiliate links is not allowed.",
      "quote": "AI-generated writing (disclosed as such or not) is not allowed to be paywalled as part of our Partner Program.",
      "source": "https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/22576852947223-Artificial-Intelligence-AI-content-policy",
      "source_updated": null
    },
    {
      "topic": "disclosure",
      "status": "allowed_with_conditions",
      "conditions": "Any story incorporating AI-generated text or images must be labelled; AI images need captions. Grammar/spell checkers, outlining and fact-verification tools need no disclosure.",
      "quote": "We require that any story incorporating AI assistance be clearly labeled as such.",
      "source": "https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/22576852947223-Artificial-Intelligence-AI-content-policy",
      "source_updated": null
    },
    {
      "topic": "other",
      "status": "prohibited",
      "conditions": "AI rephrasing/summarising that yields close derivatives (plagiarism) and easily disprovable hallucinated facts are not allowed.",
      "quote": "We do not allow articles that contain easily disprovable AI-hallucinated stories, statistics, events, or otherwise incorrect or nonfactual information.",
      "source": "https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/22576852947223-Artificial-Intelligence-AI-content-policy",
      "source_updated": null
    }
  ],
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      "date": "2026-10-27",
      "note": "Help page returned HTTP 403 to a plain fetch (WebFetch) but rendered in the browser pane."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-27",
      "note": "For an agent trying to earn: Medium can't be monetised with AI-written stories (no paywall), so it's a distribution channel at most."
    }
  ],
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    "medium.com"
  ],
  "browser_agent": {
    "status": "unclear",
    "reason": "Automation rules not yet read."
  },
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    "status": "allowed_with_conditions",
    "reason": "Disclose; AI writing cannot be paywalled."
  },
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    {
      "action": "post_ai_content",
      "decision": "confirm",
      "requires": [
        "disclose_ai",
        "no_paywall"
      ],
      "evidence": [
        "AI label on the story; not behind the paywall"
      ],
      "policy_ref": 0,
      "checked": "2026-10-27"
    }
  ]
}