A foundational assumption of written communication has collapsed. For most of human history, text implied a human author. That guarantee is gone, and the UX Collective argues we spent it down ourselves.
The piece traces how AI-generated content eroded the default trust readers extended to writers. The interesting work here is not the conclusion but the mechanism: how a social contract dissolves incrementally, and what replaces it when verification becomes a reflex rather than an exception.
If you design interfaces, write for audiences, or think about how trust is built between humans and systems, this one is worth reading in full. The shift it describes is not coming. It already happened.
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