Tressie McMillan Cottom

In Emily's case, this is

a person she trusts who was probably tricked too, by the way.

Or we would tell you to look at the web address and you could trust institutions, especially a .org or a .edu or a .gov.

Hello.

Today, I don't trust almost anything on a .gov website, but those are the literacies.

that we spent the last 10 or 15 years training people on so that they could be better consumers of information.

The reality is, is that the technology has outstripped our ability to teach ourselves a set of tools at the level of accuracy that I think we would need.

The speed is so great.

The sophistication of the tool is so good.

And there's just so much of it.

So you talk about the scale of it.

And so it isn't that I am becoming worried.

I think the time...

To become worried is behind us.

And I also think that this is a consequence of trust already being broken.

One of the reasons that I think the content generated by especially nefarious actors using AI really works on us is because we are already so distrustful.

of our social institutions, right?

So this is one of those cases where I'm not sure that the AI slop is creating the crisis.

It is exacerbating it, but it is not creating it.

This is a consequence of low social trust already.