Equation 15 · When Generation Becomes Free, Attention Becomes the Scarce Good
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It is worth saying plainly what this framework does not license. It does not permit a claim about how much machine-generated text exists, because that quantity is not reliably measured and estimates of it circulate without provenance — which is itself a small instance of the problem under discussion. The structural argument does not need the number. It needs only the observation that and are set by different mechanisms.
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