The effort heuristic is a well-documented cognitive bias where people assign more value to things they believe required more work. It shows up in everything from handmade goods to professional services, and we're seeing it in AI content creation, too. The gist: Two articles can contain identical ideas, similar insights, and comparable quality. But if one took ten hours to produce and the other took ten seconds with AI, audiences instinctively perceive the first as more valuable. That instinct...