How we use AI

Where we use AI

The Bedtime Story Machine has written its stories with Claude Haiku 4.5, an AI model made by Anthropic, since September 30, 2026. Before it writes anything, a parent or guardian has to confirm they’re 18 or over. Our server checks the words you type before they go to the AI, and checks the story when it comes back. If a check fails or the AI can’t write a story, you get a backup story instead. We wrote those ahead of time with AI help, and a line under every story tells you which kind you got.

If you ask for the printable keepsake, its picture comes from an image AI run by fal.ai. That service gets only the story’s setting and a short version of the sidekick.

Our articles, printables and homework pages are drafted with AI help. Some of our pictures are AI-generated too: the card pictures and line art in the Family AI Bedtime Build Kit, the card pictures in the Story Prompt Card Deck, our robot mascot, the scenes behind the story tool, the backup keepsake pictures, and some of our Etsy listing photos and Pinterest images.

Where we don’t

The homework pages make no AI call. Their “If you use AI” box shows you how to photograph one problem and gives you a prompt to paste into your own AI account. The photo goes to that account and never reaches AiWhizzkids. Every answer key on our practice sheets is computed by code.

The AI Habits Check uses no AI. It’s scored in your browser, and the answers are never sent to us.

The art in the Keepsake Story Book Pack isn’t AI-generated. The parent guide, Talking to Your Kids About AI, has no AI pictures; its pages were built in code.

The rules we hold ourselves to

• Your child’s name never goes to an AI. The story tool sends a stand-in name and puts your child’s name back into the story on your screen.
• We don’t save story choices, stories or keepsake pictures. What Anthropic keeps, and for how long, is on our privacy page.
• The only personal information we keep is a parent’s email address, and only when you give it to us: for a free printable, a story keepsake, news of new activities after the AI Habits Check, or a place on a waitlist. It’s kept at MailerLite, our email service, and we keep no other copy.
• A person reads every article, printable and homework page before it goes up. Homework pages show the date: “Checked by AiWhizzkids on…”
• When an article quotes a child, those are the child’s real words, used with permission.

The rule we ask families to follow

Use AI to help you help your child, and never to make anything your child hands in. If AI helped, say so. Follow your school’s AI rules first. Most AI chatbots require users to be 13 or older (Claude requires 18), so you hold the phone.

AiWhizzkids is not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI, Google, Microsoft or Anthropic.