"AI is forcing a re-configuration of the ways trust is established between writers and readers" --> there, I fixed the title

There are many ways that I think what we are currently referring to as "AI" is disrupting existing relationships in society.

To the extent that that disruption is forced by external, pointed, injection of capital (e.g. russian bot farms, heritage foundation bots, etc.), it's pernicious. It has undoubtedly made those bad actors more powerful.

But, to the extent that that disruption is the result of asymmetrical power relationships (e.g. the outsized influence that publishers have), I think it's welcome.

I know who writes the things I read (because almost everything I read is over a thousand years old! but, that's beside the point...) because it's important to me to know who I am connecting to through the written word. I doubt my relationship to writing will ever be disrupted by AI because it's so important to me to know the history of the people whose ideas I'm consuming.