Theoretical analysis demonstrates how asymmetric control over generative realization conditions constrains actor capabilities, highlighting mechanisms of platform rentiership.
Key Points
To formulate a formal, baseline-relative capability framework for diagnosing generativity exploitation, where non-rival knowledge and creative capacity coexist with scarce, controlled realization conditions.
Synthesized theories of non-rivalry, relational autonomy, epistemic standing, and political-economic mechanisms including rentiership and platform bottlenecks.
Developed a diagnostic framework using reachable viable repertoires evaluated across admitted, excluded, and unresolved comparative baselines.
Evaluated the framework using formal proofs of repertoire inclusion and countermodels testing capability contraction under fixed latent generativity.
Proved repertoire inclusion mathematically under conditions of policy expansion, preserved transition probabilities, and expanded viability.
Demonstrated through formal countermodels that latent generativity can remain constant while effective capability contracts and equal output coexists with diminished autonomy.
Established a three-valued diagnostic profile separating causal and constitutive witnesses across variable comparative baselines without relying on binary verdicts.