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Epistemic Credit
The tendency to believe an AI is telling the truth simply because it speaks in a smooth, confident, and professional tone, even when it might be making things up.
A cognitive bias where users assign credibility to AI-generated content based on its linguistic fluency and authoritative presentation rather than its factual accuracy or underlying verification.
The degree of unearned trust granted to an output based on its apparent confidence, fluency, and authority, regardless of whether it is grounded in the deeper knowledge layers that would make it reliable; a six-layer reinforcing mechanism of the Eloquence Trap. The failure that epistemic labour prevents. (C4AIL, Whitepaper I Part II.)