Ep 856: Everything Is Fake: How Your Company Can Leverage Human Expertise and Fight AI Workslop (Start Here Series Ep 15)
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What is the AI trust crisis and why are consumers skeptical of AI‑generated content?
Welcome to the Everyday AI podcast. My name is Jordan Wilson, and for the past three and a half years, we put out more than 800 episodes. Yet, one of the most common questions I get, I didn't really have an answer for. Where do I start on the Everyday AI podcast? And that's why we started the Start Here series. And with Fall now back in full swing, the Everyday AI podcast is Is going back to school and playing back the entire Start Here series from front to back. We've hit pause on our normal Monday to Friday programming to run back our most popular series ever for the next 30 days. We made the Start Here series for beginners and AI champions alike. So whether you're just trying to get a grasp on large language models or grappling with the best coding harness for multi-agentic.
Workflows, the Start Here series covers it all. Plain language, no jargon, and easy to follow along each day. So make sure to subscribe to the podcast and check back each day for new insights day by day. The series is a culmination of spending more than 10,000 hours covering generative AI over the past three and a half years. So you don't want to miss a single episode of the Start Here series. Let's get into it. Everything is fake. The text you read on that landing page, that amazing photo you saw on Instagram, the viral video on Twitter and all of those comments. That customer service rep you talked to last week that was surprisingly chipper and actually helpful. There's a good chance all of it was fake, or at least AI.
And I think we're about to cross over into a very dangerous place where the majority of our day-to-day interactions will be engaging with some type of media or medium that's either partially AI generated or completely AI. Yes, there's the fast emerging threat of deep fakes and fraud that's not gonna go away. And while I think there's a whole other episode to be done on the impacts of the everything is fake disease that has on us as individuals, there's probably a more important chip that you have to write right now. That's how your company actually uses AI, but remains human. See, I'm someone that encourages AI use like all day, every day, but I know most people and most companies don't take the proper care in elevating human expertise while using AI.
And that's led to this onslaught of work slop in 2026, or the never-ending barrage of generic sounding, uninspiring outputs that your company may be rubber stamping. So how can you fight back against the year of the fake? How can your company resonate in a sea full of mundane work slop? And how can you make sure the expertise of your brightest people doesn't get drowned out by agentifying all of your business processes? Well, we're gonna talk about that on today's episode of Everyday AI in our start here series. Everything is fake and how your company can leverage human expertise and fight the AI work slop. So here's the big picture. Right now. There is an AI trust crisis. It's already here. Uh so a recent study from
Europool uh or sorry, Europol projects that up to 90% of online content may be synthetically generated by the end of this year. And that means that trust is essentially gone. A new Salesforce state of the AI connected customer survey said that 72% of consumers trust companies less than they did a year ago. So if almost everything that we see or read online is gonna be AI and people don't trust companies. What's the answer? Well, it's elevating your human expertise while still using AI. And that's what we're gonna talk about on today's show. Uh so if you stick around for the next 20 or so minutes, here's what you're gonna learn. You're gonna learn why defaulting to everything is AI generated is now the sound professional discipline and not cynicism.
You're gonna learn how AI works slop is silently destroying trust and revenue before any dashboard shows it. And you're gonna learn what the most AI native companies do to stay human, authentic, and competitive at scale. All right, let's get into it. Welcome to Everyday AI and our start here series.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the AI trust crisis and why are consumers skeptical of AI‑generated content?
0:00–4:29
2
How is “workslop” – generic AI output – emerging and why does it matter for businesses?
4:29–8:05
3
Why does human expertise still beat fully automated AI when it comes to content quality?
8:05–11:43
4
What are AI content‑detection tools and how does the “liar’s dividend” affect trust?
11:43–14:28
5
How can companies elevate human oversight in AI workflows to avoid workslop?
14:28–17:42
6
What is context engineering and why is domain expertise essential for reliable AI output?
17:42–20:49
7
What practical roadmap can organizations follow to fight AI workslop with human expertise?
20:49–24:10
8
How do expert‑driven loops differ from simple “human‑in‑the‑loop” checkpoints?
24:10–34:01
Speakers
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