https://czechthedata.com/tags/psychology/ Recent content in Psychology on Czech the Data https://czechthedata.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://czechthedata.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo -- 0.151.2 en Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://czechthedata.com/notes/recognition/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://czechthedata.com/notes/recognition/ <p>I’ve been working in an environment where heavy AI usage has been the default for a few months now, and I’ve noticed an interesting shift in the economics of recognition.</p> <p>If exceptional work is increasingly assumed to be AI-generated, the incentive to produce exceptional work may gradually weaken. <a href="https://people.duke.edu/~dandan/webfiles/PapersPayoff/Scarcity_02June2015.pdf">Recognition has always been part of what motivates people to push beyond “good enough”</a>.</p> <p>The challenge is that AI makes authorship harder to infer from the output. Even when you solve a problem where AI failed, others may still assume AI did most of the work. As recognition becomes less connected to visible skill, the incentives around excellence begin to change.</p>