https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/ Robin Good's selected articles on trust, credibility and showing expertise online. en Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:36:44 GMT https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-1940f8c9-db29-497a-8a9d-90c37b1b7651 https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-1940f8c9-db29-497a-8a9d-90c37b1b7651 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:23:33 GMT Good questions curators ask: “We tend to imagine the curator’s job as selecting objects, however, I think good curation is really about relationships. A curator does not merely ask, Is this interesting? They are asking, Why this? Why here? What does its presence make possible? What story emerges from bringing these particular things together? Source: Fashion Culture History Author: Kayleigh Benoit Original article: https://kayleighbenoit.substack.com/p/curate-the-community-not-the-clout https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-15551f0c-2238-4844-a089-1144d3e2ec41 https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-15551f0c-2238-4844-a089-1144d3e2ec41 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:32:21 GMT Even regulators now concede watermarks can't stop deliberate disinformation. What remains decisive is who the source is and whether they're transparent about their process. That's where to put your attention: use transparency as trust-building, not as detection-proofing. Source: OpenAI Help Center Original article: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8912793-provenance-signals-content-credentials-synthid-in-openai-generated-content?utm_source=nbot.ai https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-a03cb7f9-8e98-4286-8435-e2fd1b24138c https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-a03cb7f9-8e98-4286-8435-e2fd1b24138c Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:32:03 GMT People are increasingly skeptical of anything that originates from AI and those who use it. To counter that resistance here's where to look: Personality and voice. Specificity. Visible expertise. Correction and nuance. Source: Mavic AI Author: Mukesh Original article: https://mavic.ai/what-consumers-actually-trust-in-an-ai-world/?utm_source=nbot.ai https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-5665801f670ff48f42cc0084 https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-5665801f670ff48f42cc0084 Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:30:15 GMT Michael Simmons built "See Then Build," a ChatGPT Site that automatically curates the best AI demos from X each night, which he says he checks 10+ times daily. The tool demonstrates how non-technical creators can build functional research machines using AI, and illustrates a reusable four-part template (search, filter, store, page) applicable to any rapidly-changing information domain. Source: Blockbuster Author: Michael Simmons Original article: https://blockbuster.thoughtleader.school/p/i-built-a-research-machine-that-runs https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-97aa6b71-8e5b-45a3-94e8-d89f73eaafaf https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-97aa6b71-8e5b-45a3-94e8-d89f73eaafaf Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:13:04 GMT Free, open-source video platform distributes hosting across independent federated servers and facilitates monetizing through community trust instead of algorithmic reach. It exemplifies community-led authority building at infrastructure scale: a network where curators hold real power, creators own their distribution, and value flows through protocol rather than platform lock-in. Source: webiano.digital Original article: https://webiano.digital/peertube-and-the-quiet-case-for-a-video-web-that-no-single-company-owns/ https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-af266535-d3ff-4d28-b138-c05a980c6e10 https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-af266535-d3ff-4d28-b138-c05a980c6e10 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:05:48 GMT Competitive advantage has shifted from AI adoption itself to how firms communicate trustworthiness around their AI use. Source: Law Journal Newsletters (law.com) Author: Tanya Amyote Original article: https://www.lawjournalnewsletters.com/2026/08/01/beyond-we-use-ai-why-trust-is-the-new-competitive-advantage/ https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-1a775a2b-f232-4900-9363-f3c0df04c158 https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-1a775a2b-f232-4900-9363-f3c0df04c158 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:02:05 GMT Real updates (new statistics, examples, corrections) raise a page's odds of being cited by AI. Changing only the date does not. Source: NBot AI newsletter Author: thepromptinsider.com Original article: https://thepromptinsider.com/content-freshness-in-ai-search/ https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-56ba234c-cda9-407a-9202-b3761a1723e0 https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-56ba234c-cda9-407a-9202-b3761a1723e0 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:00:50 GMT Personal branding success depends on two psychological forces: credibility (evidence of expertise repeated over time) and trust (evidence of character repeated under scrutiny). Source: linkedinlaureate.substack.com Original article: https://linkedinlaureate.substack.com/p/build-credibility-and-trust-linkedin https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-70498fcd-2536-4c5b-af4d-7150cb7d3063 https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-70498fcd-2536-4c5b-af4d-7150cb7d3063 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:59:20 GMT This guide compares free tools for building academic researcher profiles (Google Scholar, ORCID, personal websites) and identifies a structural gap: no existing solution combines verifiability with curation. Paper Digest proposes its Research Library as a solution that lets researchers organize tagged work by research area while maintaining indexed credibility. Source: NBot AI newsletter Author: paperdigest.org Original article: https://www.paperdigest.org/research-workflow/how-to-create-a-researcher-profile.html https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-a1685944-f414-426f-8748-2bfa6a93bdbd https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-a1685944-f414-426f-8748-2bfa6a93bdbd Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:50:13 GMT 55.6% of channel partners claim AI expertise. An audited certificate turns that self-reported claim into something checkable. ISO/IEC 42001 certification provides what self-assessment cannot: an independently audited, internationally recognized standard. Formal certifications are precisely the mechanism through which that confidence becomes verifiable to customers, partners, and regulators. Converting claims into credentials. Source: NBot AI newsletter Author: futurumgroup.com Original article: https://futurumgroup.com/insights/exprivias-iso-42001-cert-a-trust-signal-in-a-crowded-ai-market/ https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-836be6ee-f36f-4d9f-aee1-d02d0d41afc3 https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-836be6ee-f36f-4d9f-aee1-d02d0d41afc3 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:44:39 GMT Source credibility and transparency will remain indispensable for trust in an era where routine verification is impractical. As AI-generated content becomes photorealistic and indistinguishable from real media, the EU AI Act now requires machine-readable labels and visible notices for synthetic content, but watermarks and provenance tools have clear limits against deliberate disinformation. Source: NBot AI newsletter Author: news.bpdata.com Original article: https://news.bpdata.com/article/how-ai-generated-content-is-forcing-new-approaches-to-2e6ad8e1 https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-113e70e1a89eefef7f974eb5 https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-113e70e1a89eefef7f974eb5 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:05:43 GMT AI has made it cheap and fast to build business software, but this abundance creates a new problem: identifying which problems actually deserve solutions. The competitive advantage now shifts from technical capability to judgment: knowing what matters, what should remain human-controlled, and whether building something will meaningfully improve the business. Source: Build to Thrive Author: Juan Salas-Romer Original article: https://www.buildtothrive.co/p/ai-made-building-easy-it-did-not https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-526f8b13-3606-48c3-9c09-42baa527d3e9 https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-526f8b13-3606-48c3-9c09-42baa527d3e9 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:58:51 GMT Until now, the web's business model assumed human eyeballs were the ones viewing ads on pages. When agents autonomously browse and purchase without human intermediation, ad-supported media loses its revenue foundation entirely. Meta's Muse agent is already #1 on the App Store, and Zuckerberg is "betting the entire fate of his company" on winning the consumer agent layer. Source: newsletter.brxnd.ai Author: Mike Mallazzo Original article: https://newsletter.brxnd.ai/p/the-great-disintermediation-brxnd?utm_source=storythings-newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-encyclopaedia-of-cats-the-history-of-concrete-and-the-surprising-romance-of-blackberry-messenger&_bhlid=9ee3ea064253af4e15622ad4fb84086e587bc78e https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-cc3017dd63a4d831cf4efd71 https://robingood.com/newsradar/trust-and-credibility/#story-cc3017dd63a4d831cf4efd71 Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:30:11 GMT Dr Rezun keeps releasing good ideas and new versions for his open-source 100% free knowledge base builder. Source: Tali Razun Author: Dr. Tali Režun Original article: https://talirezun.substack.com/p/where-your-context-lives