Claim LD10-HQ-C25 (v1.0)

Label effects are context-dependent: one 2026 experiment found simple AI-authorship labels did not reduce persuasion of policy messages, while experiments on misleading synthetic images found warning labels reduced belief.

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Do AI-content labels change belief and sharing on a live social platform?Label effects are context-dependent (simple AI-authorship labels did not reduce persuasion of policy messages; warning labels reduced belief in misleading synthetic images); field trials are named as what would change it, and it licenses neither "labels work" nor "labels fail".

Provenance and status

Claim type: ESTIMATE + INTERPRETATION (as printed: “ESTIMATE / INTERPRETATION”)
Publication status: ELIGIBLE (CONTEXT) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH CONTEXT QUALIFIER”)
Verification state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
Does not license: Labels always work or labels never work
Source (field 6, as printed): Gallegos et al., PNAS Nexus 2026; PNAS Nexus 2025 misleading-image labelling study
Source type (field 7): PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (as printed: “Peer-reviewed experiments”)
Institutional position: Independent academic
Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity): EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
Recorded date: 2026-09-25
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.

Version

Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD10-HQ-C25.

Versions:v1.0 · current

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“Gallegos et al., PNAS Nexus 2026” → SRC-LD10-GALLEGOS-PNAS-NEXUS-2026--v1.0 — Gallegos et al., PNAS Nexus 2026; class PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (explicit public provenance pin)
“PNAS Nexus 2025 misleading-image labelling study” → SRC-LD10-PNAS-NEXUS-2025-MISLEADING-IMAGE-LABELS--v1.0 — PNAS Nexus 2025 misleading-image labelling study; class PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (explicit public provenance pin)

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All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD10-HQ-C25	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	Label effects are context-dependent: one 2026 experiment found simple AI-authorship labels did not reduce persuasion of policy messages, while experiments on misleading synthetic images found warning labels reduced belief.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	ESTIMATE / INTERPRETATION	base_types: ESTIMATE, INTERPRETATION
4	RESEARCH STRAND	F/E — Governance & trust	—
5	MATURITY	EMERGING	states: EMERGING
6	SOURCE	Gallegos et al., PNAS Nexus 2026; PNAS Nexus 2025 misleading-image labelling study	source_ids: SRC-LD10-GALLEGOS-PNAS-NEXUS-2026, SRC-LD10-PNAS-NEXUS-2025-MISLEADING-IMAGE-LABELS
7	SOURCE TYPE	Peer-reviewed experiments	classes: PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Independent academic	—
9	SCOPE	U.S. survey experiments; text and misleading images	—
10	DESIGN	Preregistered survey experiments	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Gallegos policy-message study; image-label studies n=7,579	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	AI-generated text/images	—
13	COMPARATOR	AI label, human label, no label; warning-label variants	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Simple authorship label had no significant persuasion effect in policy-text study; image warnings reduced belief	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Heterogeneity of label effectiveness by intervention/content/outcome	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Labels always work or labels never work	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Survey settings; label designs differ	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	EU law is a transparency condition, not an efficacy result	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	US / English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Label comprehension/effectiveness may vary across groups and contexts	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D6, D7, D4b, R-2	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Field trials or different provenance/harm-warning designs	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH CONTEXT QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: CONTEXT
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D6 (DOMAIN); D7 (DOMAIN); D4b (SUB_AREA); R-2 (LENS)

Cited by Living Debate versions

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Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 b7713913656b44f517b686913e7ad6dc39319cb682cc698e15978dcda388427b.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

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Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the canonical ledger artifact version (R07 — LD-10 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0); Implementation Architecture Selection §5 logical_id/version convention.
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