aceAI-reporters as the future of journalism? Investigating recipients’ credibility evaluations of AI-authored news
AI-authored news articles are becoming increasingly relevant, but little is known about how recipients evaluate news credibility attributed to an AI (artificial intelligence) author compared to a human journalist author. Referring to the machine heuristic ( Sundar, 2008 ) and Expectancy Violations Theory ( Burgoon, 2015 ), this study compared articles with AI-author labels to articles with human-author labels and without author labels. It further included AI trust and attitudinal congruence as relevant aspects t…
Among 844 German respondents, news sources labelled as AI-authored were judged less credible than sources labelled as human journalists, which may disadvantage newsrooms that disclose AI authorship.
The evidence comes from a single experiment with German respondents using one article topic, cannabis legalization, so the findings may not apply to other topics or populations.
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- Peer-reviewedJournalism2025-09-25
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-2166, v1: “AI-reporters as the future of journalism? Investigating recipients’ credibility evaluations of AI-authored news.” Truvace, 2026-10-22. /record/TRV-2026-2166 (accessed at citation time). sha256 2d359a170f0fecc2…
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