Content generated by AI is creating anxiety. While it's easy to dismiss these complaints about "AI slop" as reactionary rejections of progress, that isn't a fair description. The implications of generated content are going to test us in unforeseen ways.

Much of that discourse has been about AI's impact on jobs. But that's not the topic I want to cover in this column. It's time we start asking what AI means for trust. How do we decide if we can trust something? What happens when paranoia begins to replace trust? How can we adapt?