> the less users bother questioning it

This makes me think of checklists. We have decades of experience in uncountable areas showing that checklists reminding users to question the universe improve outcomes: Is the chemical mixture at the temperature indicated by the chart? Did you get confirmation from Air Traffic Control? Are you about to amputate the correct limb? Is this really the file you want to permanently erase?

Yet our human brains are usually primed to skip steps, take shortcuts, and see what we expect rather than what's really there. It's surprisingly hard to keep doing the work both consistently and to notice deviations.

> lower rates of fact-checking and reasoning challenges

Now here we are with LLMs, geared to produce a flood of superficially-plausible output which strikes at our weak-point, the ability to do intentional review in a deep and sustained way. We've automated the stuff that wasn't as-hard and putting an even greater amount of pressure on the remaining bottleneck.

Rather than the old definition involving customer interaction and ads, I fear the new "attention economy" is going to be managing the scarce resource of human inspection and validation.