authoritativeness

The blue tick was once seen as a marker of a person's authoritativeness on the site, as only a few people could become verified, such as celebrities, government workers and journalists.

Musk’s removal of the blue verification badge as anything other than a symbol of paying $8 has stripped away the only marker of authenticity or authoritativeness, however flimsy, that the platform had for individual accounts.

Google’s search engine is explicitly built around values such as “expertise,” “authoritativeness” and “trustworthiness” that today’s language models notably lack.

The Google search engine’s method of prioritizing content for viewers, designed to be based on websites’ expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness, shows there are ways of deciding who sees what that are far less risky to children — and everyone else.

Danchenko identified her as a source, she argues, to “create more authoritativeness for his work.”