Terms of use
Debrief is a free, experimental tool that reads a news article and shows you its mechanics. The brief is written by an AI model. It can be wrong, it can miss things, and it never hands you a verdict. Use it as a second pair of eyes, not as a source of fact.
You paste a news link or a block of text. Debrief reads it and returns a short brief separating what the piece establishes, what it only claims, what its framing is doing, whose interests the framing serves, and what it leaves out.
By using the site you accept these terms. If you don't accept them, don't use it.
It is not a fact-checker. It issues no true/false ruling on an article and no rating of an outlet. If you want a verdict, Debrief is the wrong tool on purpose.
It is generated by an AI model, and models get things wrong. A brief may misread a passage, miss context, or state something with more confidence than the article supports. It cannot read pages behind a paywall or a login, and what it produces for those will be thin or mistaken.
It is not professional advice — not legal, financial, medical, investment, or security advice. Don't make a decision that matters on the strength of a brief alone. Read the original, and check anything you intend to rely on.
A brief describes how a piece of writing is constructed: which words carry weight, what the framing emphasises, whose account is treated as given. That is an analytical reading of a text — opinion, offered as commentary.
It is not, and should not be read as, a factual claim about a publisher's or a journalist's motives, honesty, or intent. Debrief does not know why anyone wrote anything. It can only show you what the words on the page are doing.
Quoted or referenced material stays the property of whoever published it, used here for commentary and criticism.
Debrief is free, within a small per-visitor limit. That limit is what keeps it available and affordable for everyone, so please don't work around it — no scripted or automated requests, no scraping, no running it through a pool of addresses to reset the counter.
Access can be limited or withdrawn where use is automated, abusive, or unlawful.
Only paste material you are entitled to paste. Don't submit confidential documents, other people's personal data, or anything you are contractually or legally barred from sharing — it is sent to a third-party AI service to be read (see the privacy page).
The brief that comes back is yours to read, quote and share. Debrief claims no ownership of what you paste.
This is a one-person experiment running on free and low-cost infrastructure. It may be slow, it may be down, features may change, and it may be withdrawn entirely. There is no uptime promise and no guarantee that anything working today will work tomorrow.
The tool depends on outside services — a hosting platform and an AI provider — and their outages become its outages.
Debrief is provided as is, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose or accuracy of output.
To the fullest extent the law allows, no liability is accepted for any loss or damage arising from use of the site or reliance on a brief — including decisions taken, or not taken, on the strength of one. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
These terms are governed by Polish law. If you use Debrief as a consumer, this does not remove the protections of the mandatory law of the country you live in.
Anything to raise — a correction, a complaint, a takedown request — goes to hello@debrief.digital and gets a human reply.
These terms will change as the tool changes. The effective date at the top always says which version is live. Continuing to use Debrief after a change means accepting the updated terms.