The Liar's Dividend Without a Liar: Provenance Doubt as an Ambient Cost to Brands That Did Nothing
Authentic work can carry a provenance penalty with no lie anywhere in the chain. Names the cost — the ambient provenance discount — the asset it depletes, and the only defence that survives: external corroboration, not what the image shows.
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What can corroborate where a signal came from?
Provenance concerns the origin and history of material. The Liar’s Dividend Without a Liar examines the credibility costs that may arise when authentic material is surrounded by uncertainty about its origin.
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