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      <image:title>Calibrated sufficiency at the threshold.</image:title>
      <image:caption>The authenticity paradox framework showing calibrated sufficiency between too little cueing and too much realism</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Role-based acceptability map showing role stakes and ontological load for AI personas</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Suspicion becomes social evidence.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Collaborative persuasion knowledge framework showing evidence clues braided into collective judgment</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Advice becomes an object a group can rework.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Public advice adjudication framework showing an inherited recommendation carried into a community, scrutinised, and adjudicated</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Burdenless listening framework showing companion AI, confiding, dependence, market capture, and rupture risk</image:caption>
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