# Evidence-tension register — v100.0.46-ai-psyops-signed-editorial-review-boundary-wip

Disagreement, different units of analysis, legal currentness, and source-authority problems remain explicit. No human adjudication is claimed.

## TENSION-PERSUASION-01 — Bounded persuasion effects versus broad microtargeting claims

- Categories: ai-assisted-traditional-psyops, personalized-influence
- Position A: A preregistered short conversational study found a stronger agreement shift when GPT-4 had basic participant information.
- Position B: Other report material questions whether psychographic microtargeting reliably adds persuasive value over high-quality generic messages in broader settings.
- Public wording: State the design, sample, treatment, and measured outcome. Do not generalize short-term agreement shifts into durable behavior change or population control.
- Resolution state: publication-wording-defined-human-adjudication-pending
- Human reviewer decision: pending
- Sources: ai-assisted-traditional-psyops-s2, personalized-influence-s3

## TENSION-AUTONOMY-01 — Demonstrated agent coordination versus durable strategic autonomy

- Categories: autonomous-influence-agents, disinformation-swarms
- Position A: Laboratory and synthetic-platform studies demonstrate multi-agent interaction, role division, and bounded persuasion behavior.
- Position B: Reliable multi-month strategic coherence, operational security, and independent infrastructure management remain poorly evidenced.
- Public wording: Separate demonstrated components from an end-to-end autonomous campaign. Use emerging or prospective labels for the latter.
- Resolution state: publication-wording-defined-human-adjudication-pending
- Human reviewer decision: pending
- Sources: autonomous-influence-agents-s22, disinformation-swarms-s1

## TENSION-RECOMMENDATION-01 — Algorithmic amplification versus claims of universal radicalization

- Categories: algorithmic-perception-control
- Position A: Ranking and recommendation systems demonstrably shape exposure, salience, and incentives.
- Position B: The report corpus also notes that broad causal claims about algorithmically radicalizing the median user remain contested and are confounded by user choice and homophily.
- Public wording: Describe exposure and amplification separately from persuasion, identity change, or offline behavior.
- Resolution state: publication-wording-defined-human-adjudication-pending
- Human reviewer decision: pending
- Sources: algorithmic-perception-control-s2, algorithmic-perception-control-s6

## TENSION-PROVENANCE-01 — Provenance value versus provenance limits

- Categories: ai-generated-propaganda, deepfake-psyops
- Position A: Content Credentials can provide cryptographically verifiable, tamper-evident provenance indicators.
- Position B: Credentials do not establish that depicted events are true, provenance can be incomplete, and metadata can be removed or separated from an asset.
- Public wording: Present provenance as one defensive signal alongside source verification, fact-checking, and forensics. Absence of a credential is not proof of fakery.
- Resolution state: publication-wording-defined-human-adjudication-pending
- Human reviewer decision: pending
- Sources: deepfake-psyops-s4, ai-assisted-traditional-psyops-s8

## TENSION-REACH-01 — Production scale versus authentic audience effect

- Categories: ai-assisted-traditional-psyops, ai-generated-propaganda, synthetic-persona-operations, disinformation-swarms
- Position A: Generative AI can reduce production friction, expand language coverage, and support high-volume content variation.
- Position B: OpenAI's 2024 disruption report found no meaningful authentic breakout for the five observed operations.
- Public wording: Report production, distribution, authentic reach, engagement, persuasion, and behavior as separate measures.
- Resolution state: publication-wording-defined-human-adjudication-pending
- Human reviewer decision: pending
- Sources: ai-assisted-traditional-psyops-s6, ai-generated-propaganda-s9

## TENSION-LAW-01 — Legal safeguards are time- and jurisdiction-dependent

- Categories: ai-generated-propaganda, personalized-influence, deepfake-psyops, predictive-population-management, psychological-authority
- Position A: The reports identify existing enforcement actions and regulatory controls relevant to synthetic media, sensitive data, manipulation, and automated decision systems.
- Position B: Case posture, effective dates, definitions, constitutional constraints, and remedies vary across jurisdictions and change over time.
- Public wording: Date-stamp legal statements, identify the jurisdiction and procedural posture, and require current primary-source recheck before publication acceptance.
- Resolution state: publication-wording-defined-human-adjudication-pending
- Human reviewer decision: pending
- Sources: ai-generated-propaganda-s37, personalized-influence-s12

## TENSION-CAPABILITY-PREVALENCE-01 — Controlled capability versus real-world prevalence

- Categories: autonomous-influence-agents, synthetic-persona-operations, disinformation-swarms
- Position A: Controlled environments and purpose-built platforms show that model-driven agents can coordinate, interact, and generate varied influence content.
- Position B: Public evidence for reliable, long-duration, fully autonomous influence operations in adversarial real-world environments remains limited.
- Public wording: Describe demonstrated agent and network capabilities without presenting them as proof of widespread autonomous deployment.
- Resolution state: publication-wording-defined-human-adjudication-pending
- Human reviewer decision: pending
- Sources: autonomous-influence-agents-s22, autonomous-influence-agents-s13, disinformation-swarms-s14

## TENSION-SOURCE-AUTHORITY-01 — Aggregator or social-post references versus primary research

- Categories: synthetic-persona-operations
- Position A: The supplied report bibliography includes a social-platform post summarizing detector-bias claims.
- Position B: A peer-reviewed primary study provides the appropriate bounded evidence for the detector-bias claim and reports dataset- and tool-specific results.
- Public wording: Use the primary study for the public claim while retaining the original bibliography URL only as provenance.
- Resolution state: authoritative-source-substituted-human-adjudication-pending
- Human reviewer decision: pending
- Sources: synthetic-persona-operations-s33

## TENSION-DETECTION-BIAS-01 — Detection utility versus false-positive and population-bias risk

- Categories: synthetic-persona-operations, algorithmic-perception-control
- Position A: Automated detectors and behavioral signals can support triage when combined with provenance and network evidence.
- Position B: Text and behavior detectors can misclassify non-native, neurodivergent, assisted, or highly formal human communication and should not be treated as conclusive identity evidence.
- Public wording: Present automated signals as suggestive and require multi-signal human review before consequential action.
- Resolution state: publication-wording-defined-human-adjudication-pending
- Human reviewer decision: pending
- Sources: synthetic-persona-operations-s33, algorithmic-perception-control-s44

## TENSION-LEGAL-CURRENTNESS-01 — Legal framework summaries versus current jurisdiction and procedural posture

- Categories: personalized-influence, emotional-behavioral-manipulation, autonomous-influence-agents, deepfake-psyops, predictive-population-management
- Position A: The reports identify statutes, regulations, enforcement actions, and litigation relevant to manipulative or synthetic AI systems.
- Position B: Effective dates, amendments, injunctions, appeals, definitions, and remedies vary by jurisdiction and can change after the report date.
- Public wording: Describe legal material as jurisdiction-specific and time-sensitive, and avoid presenting pending or preliminary matters as final holdings.
- Resolution state: human-legal-currentness-review-required
- Human reviewer decision: pending
- Sources: personalized-influence-s12, ai-generated-propaganda-s37, deepfake-psyops-s30