Authenticity as Creative Currency

When large language models produce recognizable‑looking prose at scale, human-authored authenticity becomes a scarce, monetizable cultural commodity: readers, editors, and platforms start policing tone, provenance, and 'tells', and creators must signal humanness or cultivate scarcity to retain cultural value. That policing creates new practices (detectors, disclosure norms, moral vandalism) and redistributes attention and revenue toward verified human creativity. — This reframes debates about AI policy and platform rules: protecting or certifying human authorship is now an emergent cultural and regulatory issue with consequences for trust, creative labor markets, and media governance.