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Google Jigsaw study finds Gen Z folk heuristics of credibility

4 points| turadg | 1 year ago |businessinsider.com

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smarm52|1 year ago

> "Within a week of actual research, we just threw out the term information literacy," says Yasmin Green, Jigsaw's CEO. Gen Zers, it turns out, are "not on a linear journey to evaluate the veracity of anything." Instead, they're engaged in what the researchers call "information sensibility" — a "socially informed" practice that relies on "folk heuristics of credibility." In other words, Gen Zers know the difference between rock-solid news and AI-generated memes. They just don't care.

Learning has an evolutionary structure, so the "organic" quality of how they've learned to evaluate information matches up.

But now this means there's a real incentive to start fabricating comments with AI to start "capturing" Gen Z in the wild.

turadg|1 year ago

« Gen Zers, it turns out, are "not on a linear journey to evaluate the veracity of anything." Instead, they're engaged in what the researchers call "information sensibility" — a "socially informed" practice that relies on "folk heuristics of credibility." In other words, Gen Zers know the difference between rock-solid news and AI-generated memes. They just don't care. »

https://archive.is/BZIU8#selection-1855.0-1867.1

082349872349872|1 year ago

On the scale of "rock-solid news" to "AI-generated memes", where does businessinsider.com lie?