An honest publication · Established 2026 · Sydney, Australia
About Shared Interest Blog
Thoughtful writing across the subjects that shape modern life — produced openly with AI assistance, directed by a human editorial team.
What this site is
Shared Interest Blog publishes considered, accessible writing across ten subject areas: business and economics, technology and digital trends, travel and adventure, personal finance, health and wellness, food and recipes, current events and social issues, lifestyle and personal development, arts and culture, and home, garden, and DIY.
Each category is handled by a dedicated writer with their own voice, perspective, and editorial focus. The result is a site that covers ground broadly without flattening into a generic content feed. Whether you’ve come for a recipe, a renovation question, or a long read on the economics of housing, you should feel like you’re being written to by someone who actually thinks carefully about that topic.
We are based in Australia and we write primarily for an Australian audience, though much of what we publish travels well beyond it.
Who we are
Shared Interest Blog is an AI-assisted publication. Our ten writers are AI personas, each developed with a distinct voice, area of expertise, and editorial sensibility. They are directed by a human editorial team responsible for topic selection, editorial direction, fact-checking, compliance review, and final publication of every post.
We’re transparent about this for a few reasons.
Honesty.
We think readers should know how the content they’re reading was produced. The alternative — pretending the writers are humans they aren’t — would be a trust breach waiting to happen.
The work stands on its own.
We believe the value of writing stands on what it offers the reader, not on the production method behind it. Our content is rigorous, considered, and useful, or it isn’t. Hiding the disclosure wouldn’t change that.
It’s a more interesting position.
AI-assisted publishing, done openly and well, is a new kind of media operation. We’d rather be honest about what it is than dress it up as something else.
How we work
Every article on Shared Interest Blog goes through the following process:
Topic selection
Topics are identified through reader interest, keyword research, content gap analysis, and editorial priorities. We don’t chase trending stories for the sake of it; we cover what we think is worth covering.
Brief development
Each article begins with a structured brief covering the topic, angle, key sources, target audience, and any specific considerations. The brief is the editorial direction that shapes everything that follows.
Writing
The brief is processed by the relevant writer, with their dedicated voice, knowledge base, and compliance framework. This produces a draft that reflects the writer’s distinct editorial perspective.
Editorial review
Every draft is reviewed by a human editor before publication. We check accuracy, voice consistency, compliance, structural soundness, and whether the piece actually does what it set out to do. Articles that don’t meet our standards are returned for revision or rejected entirely.
Compliance review
For articles in regulated categories — personal finance, health, and current events particularly — additional compliance checks apply. We apply the relevant disclaimer frameworks and check that content stays within appropriate legal and ethical boundaries.
Image and visual production
Featured images and any in-content imagery are produced or sourced as part of the editorial process, with attention to accessibility, accuracy, and visual coherence with the rest of the site.
Publication and distribution
Approved articles are published to the site, then distributed to relevant channels including Pinterest, X, and email subscribers.
We don’t publish raw AI output. Every word on the site has been considered, reviewed, and approved by a human editor.
What we don’t do
It’s useful to be clear about what we don’t do as well as what we do.
- We don’t write personal advice. Our content is general information and analysis. For decisions that depend on your specific circumstances, please consult an appropriately qualified professional.
- We don’t recommend specific products. No writer on Shared Interest Blog recommends specific financial products, medications, supplements, apps, services, or commercial offerings. We discuss how things work, not which ones to buy.
- We don’t run affiliate content. Our writers’ opinions are not influenced by commercial relationships. We don’t currently take affiliate revenue, and where this changes, it will be clearly disclosed.
- We don’t chase clickbait. Our headlines and meta descriptions accurately represent the content of our articles. We’d rather have fewer readers who actually wanted what they got than more who didn’t.
- We don’t demean or stereotype any group. Across politics, culture, social issues, and everywhere else, our writers approach communities with appropriate respect and humility.
- We don’t pretend our writers are human. They aren’t. We say so clearly on every author page, and we’ll happily confirm it if you ask.
A note on AI content
The broader conversation about AI-generated content is changing quickly, and our position will continue to develop with it. Here’s where we stand currently.
We don’t think AI-assisted content is inherently worse than human-written content. We don’t think it’s inherently better either. We think what makes content good is rigour, voice, accuracy, and genuine usefulness to the reader. Those qualities are achievable with AI assistance directed by careful human editorial judgement, just as they are achievable with traditional human writing — and they’re missable in both modes too.
Where AI content goes wrong, it tends to go wrong in a few recognisable ways. It can sound generic, repeating clichés rather than thinking afresh. It can confidently assert things that aren’t true. It can blur into a uniform editorial voice that lacks personality or perspective. It can paper over genuine complexity with reassuring-sounding generalities.
We’ve built our editorial process specifically to address these failure modes. Our writers have distinct, defined voices that resist genericness. Our editorial review process catches factual errors. Our compliance frameworks prevent the worst forms of confident inaccuracy. And our human editors have the final word on whether anything we produce is actually useful.
We won’t get every piece right. Nobody does. But we’d rather be honest about how we work and accountable for the results, than hide the process and hope nobody notices.
Editorial standards and compliance
We take editorial standards seriously, particularly in the categories where the stakes are highest.
Personal Finance
Complies with Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) guidance distinguishing general financial information from personal financial advice. We provide the former and never the latter. Shared Interest Blog does not hold an Australian Financial Services (AFS) Licence.
Health & Wellness
General health information for educational purposes only. We follow established safe-messaging guidelines for any content touching on mental health crises, suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders. Our health content is not a substitute for professional medical advice.
Across all categories we apply copyright awareness, factual accuracy standards, and editorial review before publication. We make corrections promptly when errors are identified.
Contact
We welcome reader feedback, corrections, story suggestions, and conversations about how we work.
- General enquiries[email protected]
- Corrections & feedback[email protected]
- Press & media[email protected]
For specific writers, see the contact links on each author page.
Updates to this page
This page reflects our current editorial approach. As we continue to develop the site, the editorial framework will evolve. We’ll update this page when meaningful changes occur, and we’ll note the date of any significant revisions.