Boyd’s “people, ideas, technology; in that order” implies that a distrust of AI-assisted media resolves to “I don’t trust the author.”

At initial contact, you’ve got two ways to solve that. Either go all in on ideas and technology, creating a stack of immutable records and proofs of thought and refusing everything that doesn’t conform to it (good luck). Or go all in on trust; rely on reputational integrity as the signal, honed over time, for a first-pass evaluation.

On the reputational side, the author doesn’t really assume a burden of proof (“convince me of every point!”) so much as a burden of defensibility. The audience reserves the right to ask the questions, “Is this true?” and, “How did you come to this conclusion?”, at any point.

The author must, eventually, answer.