Lexicon · term

Disclosure trap

Also called Transparency dilemma.

The condition in which admitting machine assistance lowers trust in high-trust work, so the individually rational response is private verification, and the resulting silence is more fragile than the disclosure it avoided.

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The disclosure trap

Saying you used a machine costs you trust, professionals respond by going quiet, and that collides with our own position on provenance

Introduced here.
The weightless exchange

The machine cannot be hurt by you, and that absence is what the exchange costs