> "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.<p>Learning has an evolutionary structure, so the "organic" quality of how they've learned to evaluate information matches up.<p>But now this means there's a real incentive to start fabricating comments with AI to start "capturing" Gen Z in the wild.
« 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 <i>care</i>. »<p><a href="https://archive.is/BZIU8#selection-1855.0-1867.1" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/BZIU8#selection-1855.0-1867.1</a>