The verification gap is not a gap in awareness — it is a gap in platform design. Artists labeling their own work as human-made are performing a function the platforms should provide but don't. The case for a universal human-made content label has circulated in creator communities for months; what's absent is any platform with the institutional will to implement one at scale. The result is a patchwork of individual workarounds — alt text disclaimers, portfolio withdrawals, competing certification badges — none of which addresses the underlying algorithmic failure to…