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Story vault underneath, Reader Skills on top: what changed in v1.3.0
From v1.2.0 (2026-10-07, a4b4b7b71) to v1.3.0 (2026-10-07, 1e8b776bb), paragraph by paragraph.
6 paragraphs added, 2 removed, 0 changed in place, 40 unchanged. About 506 words added and 242 removed. Insertions are marked like this, deletions like this; unchanged runs are folded to one line; figures appear as their file names.
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[figure lu-chatgpt-infographic.webp] An infographic of Markus Franz's article, made with ChatGPT from the article's text and posted under his LinkedIn post, where he replied that he liked "how clearly you visualised the shift from Liquid Content to Liquid Utility". Faithful on the six skills, the layers and the safeguards; see the note below for what it adds and what it drops. | medium
> Reading the infographic against the article. It gets the substance right: the gap, Liquid Utility, the six Reader Skills, the layered system, the safeguards and the advice to start small. Four things to know. The taglines ("Same facts. A more useful tomorrow", "People informed, people empowered, stronger societies", "Real journalism. Greater possibilities") and the line "Trust turns useful services into lasting relationships" are the infographic's, not Markus's. "An AI feature alone is not the advantage. Reliability is" is a fair compression, but his own wording is more careful: the publisher's case *would have to rest* on original access, maintained data, local reporting and accountability, and even then the service must be demonstrably better for a particular task. It drops his qualifiers, that the six skills are a proposed framework rather than a universal taxonomy and that reach, utility, relationship and reciprocity are a hypothesis to measure rather than a funnel. And it leaves out his evidence on search and clicks, and his boundary that "relevant to me" must not become "nothing beyond my immediate interests".
33 unchanged paragraphs, under Each Reader Skill is a question the graph can already answer, The bridge, drawn, What his article adds: the job, and the place…
Two infographics
ChatGPT made an infographic of this article from its published text, and another of Markus's article, which I posted under his LinkedIn post. Both are worth having, and both are worth reading against their source, so each has a note.
[figure sv-chatgpt-infographic.webp] The infographic of this article, made with ChatGPT from its published text. Faithful on the two questions, the graph underneath, the six skills, the safeguards, locality and the place to start; the note below says where it departs. | medium
> Reading it against this article. It follows the argument closely: what the story vault answers and what Reader Skills answer, the graph underneath with evidence, claims and versions, each skill as an operation on it, the safeguards, locality, facts travelling up and attribution flowing back down, and one topic, one vault, one service, one ledger. It is careful in the right place, marking the micropayments as proposed and not yet implemented, which is what this article says. Three things to know. Its bridge has its own illustrative dates: closed from 7 October and reopening on 20 October, moved earlier from the 27th, where the figure above has the bridge closing on 13 October, the council notice dated 9 October and the reopening moved later, from 24 November to 1 December. Its closing line says "credit the people who found it", where this article says pay them, and paying them is the point. And "Trust turns local information into lasting value", like the words in the margins, is the infographic's own; one of those words is misspelt, "informalton".
[figure lu-chatgpt-infographic.webp] The infographic of Markus Franz's article, made with ChatGPT from the article's text and posted under his LinkedIn post, where he replied that he liked "how clearly you visualised the shift from Liquid Content to Liquid Utility". Faithful on the six skills, the layers and the safeguards; the note below says what it adds and what it drops. | medium
> Reading it against Markus's article. It gets the substance right: the gap, Liquid Utility, the six Reader Skills, the layered system, the safeguards and the advice to start small. Four things to know. The taglines ("Same facts. A more useful tomorrow", "People informed, people empowered, stronger societies", "Real journalism. Greater possibilities") and the line "Trust turns useful services into lasting relationships" are the infographic's, not Markus's. "An AI feature alone is not the advantage. Reliability is" is a fair compression, but his own wording is more careful: the publisher's case *would have to rest* on original access, maintained data, local reporting and accountability, and even then the service must be demonstrably better for a particular task. It drops his qualifiers, that the six skills are a proposed framework rather than a universal taxonomy and that reach, utility, relationship and reciprocity are a hypothesis to measure rather than a funnel. And it leaves out his evidence on search and clicks, and his boundary that "relevant to me" must not become "nothing beyond my immediate interests".
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