The Guardian Headline Full font family includes several styles, each with different weights and italics. These fonts are available in multiple formats (woff2, woff, and ttf) from the Guardian’s servers. The styles range from Light (weight 300) to Semibold (weight 600), with both regular and italic versions for each weight.@font-face {
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font-family: Guardian Headline Full;
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font-family: Guardian Headline Full;
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url(https://assets.guim.co.uk/static/frontend/fonts/guardian-headline/full-not-hinted/GHGuardianHeadline-Black.woff) format(“woff”),
url(https://assets.guim.co.uk/static/frontend/fonts/guardian-headline/full-not-hinted/GHGuardianHeadline-Black.ttf) format(“truetype”);
font-weight: 900;
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url(https://interactive.guim.co.uk/fonts/garnett/GTGuardianTitlepiece-Bold.woff) format(“woff”),
url(https://interactive.guim.co.uk/fonts/garnett/GTGuardianTitlepiece-Bold.ttf) format(“truetype”);
font-weight: 700;
font-style: normal;
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}The provided text appears to be a fragment of CSS code, likely from a website’s stylesheet. It defines various visual styles, such as colors, margins, and padding, for different elements like articles, captions, and quotes. The code also includes specific rules for different screen sizes and color schemes, including a dark mode.The CSS code defines styles for various elements on a webpage. It sets specific fonts, sizes, and layouts for drop caps, pullquotes, and immersive elements. The code includes responsive design rules that adjust margins, padding, and grid layouts for different screen sizes, particularly for wider screens above 61.25em.The CSS code defines styles for a layout wrapper, adjusting grid structures, typography, and element visibility across different screen sizes. For larger screens, it sets specific grid templates, modifies headline font sizes and widths, and hides certain elements like lines and social components. Borders and spacing are customized using CSS variables, and media queries ensure responsive behavior from medium to extra-large viewports.@media (max-width: 46.24em) {
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Text within meta sections is a light gray (#dcdcdc), while links use the new pillar color or dark mode feature. Hovering over these links changes their color and underline to match the same color.
In standfirst sections, links have no bottom border, use the new pillar color, and are underlined with a color from the header border. Hovering changes the underline color to the new pillar color. Paragraph text is light gray, and on larger screens, the first paragraph may have a top border that disappears on even larger screens. List items are also light gray, and on wide screens, a background line appears before the standfirst.
For medium screens and above, the furniture wrapper adds sidebars with a dark background and a border, adjusting their width based on the viewport to frame the content. These sidebars expand or contract at different breakpoints to maintain layout proportions.For screens wider than 1298px, the right position is calculated as half the difference between the viewport width (minus the scrollbar) and 1298px, then made negative. The stroke color for SVGs within the furniture-wrapper’s keyline-4 and lines sections uses the header border color. Similarly, the border color for social and comment elements within the meta section also adopts the header border color.
In the article body, h2 headings have a font weight of 200, but if they contain a strong element, the weight increases to 700.
Several font faces are defined for the “Guardian Headline Full” family, each with different weights and styles (light, light italic, regular, regular italic, medium, medium italic, semibold), specifying sources in WOFF2, WOFF, and TTF formats from the Guardian’s asset domain.@font-face {
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body.ios #standard-article-container .element-atom:first-of-type + .sign-in-gate + p:first-of-type:first-letter,
body.ios #standard-article-container .element-atom:first-of-type + #sign-in-gate + p:first-of-type:first-letter,
body.ios #comment-article-container .element-atom:first-of-type + p:first-of-type:first-letter,
body.ios #comment-article-container .element-atom:first-of-type + .sign-in-gate + p:first-of-type:first-letter,
body.ioThis CSS code sets specific styles for articles on Android and iOS devices. It adjusts the color of the first letter in certain paragraphs to match a secondary pillar color. It also hides article headers by setting their height to zero and modifies the layout of article furniture, including labels, headlines, and images. Labels are styled with bold, capitalized text in a specific font family and color. Headlines are set to 32 pixels, bold, with bottom padding and a dark gray color. Images are positioned relatively, with adjusted margins and width to account for the viewport and scrollbar.For images within article containers on both iOS and Android, set the background to transparent and the width to the full viewport minus the scrollbar width, with automatic height.
For the introductory text sections in articles on both iOS and Android, add top and bottom padding and a negative right margin.
For paragraphs within these introductory sections on both iOS and Android, use the specified font families.
For links within these introductory sections on both iOS and Android, apply a specific color, remove the background image, add an underline with a custom offset and color, and remove any border. Also, define the hover state for these links.When links within the standfirst are hovered over, their underline color changes to match the new pillar color. On iOS and Android devices, the meta section in feature, standard, and comment articles has no margin. Within this meta section, elements like the byline, author name, and author links also adopt the new pillar color. The meta__misc area has no padding, and any SVG icons inside it are outlined with the new pillar color. For showcase elements, the caption button is displayed as a flex container, centered with 5px padding, measuring 28px by 28px, and positioned 14px from the right.For iOS and Android devices, the article body in feature, standard, and comment containers has no side padding.
For non-thumbnail, non-immersive images within these article bodies, the figures have no margin, a width calculated from the viewport (accounting for scrollbars), and an automatic height. Their captions have no padding.
Immersive image figures within these containers have a width calculated from the viewport (accounting for scrollbars).
For quoted blockquotes within the prose of these article bodies, the quote indicator uses a specific color variable.
Links within the prose of these article bodies use a primary color variable, have no background image, are underlined with a specific offset and color, and change the underline color on hover.
These styles apply in dark mode as well.On iOS and Android devices, the furniture wrapper for feature, standard, and comment articles has a dark background. Within these wrappers, content labels use the pillar color, while headlines and standfirst text adopt the header border color. Links in the standfirst and author bylines also use the pillar color. Icons in the meta section are styled with the pillar color as their stroke. Additionally, captions for showcase images within these wrappers follow the same styling rules.For iOS and Android devices, the text color of captions in showcase images within feature, standard, and comment articles is set to the dateline color. Additionally, quoted text blocks in these articles use the new pillar color.
The background color for the main content areas in feature, standard, and comment articles is forced to a dark background. For iOS devices, the first letter of a paragraph following specific elements in these articles is styled with a drop cap.This appears to be a CSS selector targeting the first letter of paragraphs in various article containers on iOS and Android devices, specifically when they follow certain elements like `.element-atom`, `.sign-in-gate`, or `#sign-in-gate`.The provided text appears to be a fragment of CSS code, likely from a website’s stylesheet. It contains various selectors and style rules, including some for specific article containers, comment sections, and dark mode preferences. The code sets properties like colors, padding, and font sizes for different elements and device types (iOS and Android).On iOS and Android devices, hide the article header in feature, standard, and comment article containers by setting its opacity to zero. For these same containers, remove any margin from the furniture wrapper. Set the color of content labels within the furniture wrapper to a custom CSS variable, defaulting to a dark mode feature color. Make all main headlines (h1) inside the furniture wrapper a light gray color. Style links within the article header or title section to use the same custom color variable. Before the meta section, apply a subtle striped background using a repeating linear gradient based on the header border color. Finally, ensure the byline text within the meta section inherits these styles consistently.This CSS code sets styles for different article types on iOS and Android devices. It defines colors for bylines, links, icons, and labels within the article metadata sections. The colors vary based on the device type and article container, using specific hex codes and CSS variables for theming.This CSS code sets styles for different article containers on iOS and Android devices. It defines colors for icons and meta information, and adjusts layout for larger screens. On screens wider than 71.25em, it displays meta sections with a colored top border and adjusts margins. It also applies styles to paragraphs and lists within article bodies.Three years after ChatGPT was released, people have largely split into two groups: those who avoid using it and those who rely on it daily.
A 2025 survey by the Pew Research Center found that one-third of U.S. adults report using ChatGPT. This includes 58% of adults under 30—roughly double the share from two years ago.
Experts say the emerging divide…The divide between those who are already deeply invested in AI and those who are refusing to engage with it makes it increasingly important to have an open conversation about how best to use it.
So how should we approach AI tools? Here is a step-by-step guide informed by experts.
Brainstorming ideas
Knowing when to use AI can be daunting if you’re not already familiar with what it can do. You can start by simply asking it for help with what is already on your mind or what’s outstanding on your to-do list.
Timothy B. Lee, author of the Understanding AI newsletter, recommends using AI tools to brainstorm and break down tasks or projects into achievable steps. “Any time you’re trying to come up with ideas, it’s a good starting place,” he says.
Catherine Goetze, a content creator and AI educator who goes by @askcatgpt on TikTok, suggests thinking of it as a “thought partner” to help bounce around ideas, break through creative blocks, or refine your thinking. But it’s important that, when reviewing the results, you continue to draw on your own judgment, expertise, and taste, rather than letting the AI have the final say. The best tasks for AI are those “where you know what the right answer looks like,” she says.
Researching projects
For more complex or intensive research, an AI tool can give you a rundown of what has been published. “Think about it as similar to Wikipedia,” Lee says. “We know it’s fallible, and we know how to check citations.”
Tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity all offer some variation of a “deep research” feature. This will scour documents on your topic and summarize them in a report of a few thousand words. The bot will even ask you clarifying questions to assemble the most relevant results.
“It’s really astonishingly good,” Lee says. Its responses will provide primary sources and links, enabling you to refer to them yourself. Lee says the deep research function is helpful for “getting a lay of the land”—identifying key papers to read, questions to answer, and next steps for your project.
That’s the important bit, experts agree: after using an AI tool for preliminary orientation, you still need to do the actual work yourself.
Learning new skills or hobbies
You can also use AI “when it allows you to expand your world,” says Ella Hafermalz, an associate professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, who studies generative AI’s impact on work.
Hafermalz has been using it for help with growing a mini lotus flower, learning the basics of investing in stocks, and even sparking ideas for what to make for dinner.
She says its benefit is “getting you off the ground” with a new interest, activity, hobby, or skill, particularly those that have a high barrier to entry.
“For many people, the hurdle in trying a new thing is embarrassment, fear, time, discomfort, not even knowing what you need to know,” she says.
A back-and-forth with the AI can break down those barriers and “get you to that next step,” Hafermalz says. But, again, it’s best treated as a starting point for tasks that are perhaps lower stakes and where you remain the ultimate authority.
Organizing information
Once you’ve started your research project, AI tools can help you structure your findings, such as by identifying themes, answering questions, or generating timelines or summaries.
If research is your priority, Hafermalz recommends using Google’s free-to-use application NotebookLM, which draws only from documents, notes, and materials you’ve uploaded, rather than the entirety of the web.
Historians are now using NotebookLM as a research assistant, Hafermalz says. She continued: “It acts as an organizer… If you’re trying to organize information and synthesize things, and you don’t want it to go off-piste and pull things from Reddit, NotebookLM is a more contained space.”
For personal use, AI can function like a domestic helper…Think of AI as a helper or an executive assistant—someone to plan meals or workouts, create a budget, or organize your afternoon by priority.
How to Get Better Results
A year ago, crafting the perfect prompt was key to getting the best from AI, but that’s becoming less important over time. Still, there are ways to improve your results.
Leading AI tools now respond more intuitively to casual language, though providing context helps. “The more information you give, the better the result,” one expert notes.
Another suggests moving away from the idea of “prompting” altogether. “Think of it as a conversation,” she says. “The magic comes from the back-and-forth.” That’s ChatGPT’s advantage over a simple search—so feel free to just start rambling.
As long as you avoid sharing sensitive details, you can also link to websites or upload PDFs for the AI to reference. For example, share a phone contract and ask it to highlight important terms or potential savings.
If you’re stuck, try a “reverse-prompt.” One user recently asked ChatGPT for five questions to overcome a mental block on a document. “It prompted me to reflect in new ways,” she says.
Never Blindly Trust AI
Always verify AI responses. While models improve daily, they can still spread false information or even “hallucinate”—making things up. Check sources, links, and dates for accuracy.
How Not to Use AI
AI can shrink our world, undermine our abilities, or even diminish our humanity if misused. This often happens when we treat it as a shortcut or final step, rather than a starting point.
For instance, using ChatGPT to generate ideas is helpful, but having it write scripts word-for-word can become a crutch that hinders creativity.
Experts agree it will grow harder to tell what’s human-written and what’s AI-generated. For now, aim to be transparent and avoid plagiarism or copyright issues.
Another risk is becoming over-reliant on AI responses. “Don’t get stuck in an AI feedback loop—it can lead to dark places,” one expert warns.
Set a clear goal each time you use AI, and gradually increase the stakes so you stay in control. “AI shouldn’t be a prison—it should be a stepping stone to help you get out and do other things,” she advises. “Use it where you can verify the results in the real world.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Of course Here is a list of FAQs based on expert advice for using AI tools responsibly
Beginner Foundational Questions
1 What does using AI responsibly actually mean
It means using AI tools in a way that is ethical safe fair and transparent Its about understanding their limitations not causing harm and being accountable for the results you create with them
2 Whats the biggest mistake beginners make with AI
Trusting the AIs output 100 without factchecking AI can generate convincing but incorrect or biased information Always verify critical facts data and sources
3 Do I own the content an AI creates for me
Its complicated and depends on the tools terms of service and your location Generally you should not assume full copyright ownership For important commercial work consult legal advice and disclose AI use if required
4 Is it okay to put private or sensitive information into an AI chatbot
No You should never input confidential company data personal identifiable information or anything you wouldnt want to be potentially leaked Assume anything you type could be used to train the model
5 How can I avoid plagiarism when using AI for writing
Use the AI as a brainstorming partner or editor not a copypaste source Always heavily edit add your own unique voice and insights and run the final work through a plagiarism checker
Advanced Practical Application Questions
6 How can I spot and reduce bias in AIgenerated content
AI models are trained on vast internet data which contains human biases To combat this ask the AI to consider multiple perspectives factcheck claims about groups of people and use your own judgment to ensure fairness and inclusivity
7 What are AI hallucinations and how do I manage them
Hallucinations are when an AI invents facts citations or data that sound plausible but are false Manage them by asking the AI to cite its sources using AI for ideation rather than final facts and crossreferencing key information
8 Should I disclose that I used an AI tool
Experts strongly recommend transparency Disclosing AI use builds trust with your audience clients or colleagues Its often required by academic institutions publishers and some workplaces When
