Trust Cliff

The moment when reputational decline crosses from recoverable to structural — when AI engines, institutional press, and consumer perception have all locked in a negative entity description that subsequent communications work cannot reverse on a normal cycle. Bud Light post-April 2023 and Boeing post-737-MAX-cycle are the reference cases. Distinguished from temporary reputational damage by the durability of the AI-engine retrieval pattern.

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