Comment by mmooss

> the effort to dig into every claim you read is an impossibly large amount of work. This “bullshit asymmetry principle” is one of the core reasons for the current level of misinformation in online discourse.

The level of misinformation predates AI, of course (and the OP doesn't say otherwise, iiuc).

There's an easy solution to the assymetry: Like many fields such as all scholarship, law, most of what you do professionally, put the burden of proof on the writer, not the reader. Ignore anything the writer fails to substantiate. You'll be surprised how very little you miss, and how much high quality, substantiated material there is - more than you can read (so why are you wasting your time on BS?)!

That not only improves accuracy, it slows down the velocity of bullshit. The assymetry is now the other way, as it should be - your attention is limited.