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      "creator": "AI-generated for Luke Nathan Hayes",
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      "caption": "An imagined Australian automotive and robotics production floor. AI-generated concept image illustrating physical productive capacity and the people who understand it.",
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      "caption": "A speculative orbital construction and manufacturing scene above Earth. AI-generated concept image, not a photograph of an operating project.",
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      "caption": "An imagined Australian port control room with tangible human controls over networked machinery. AI-generated concept image, not a photograph of an operating facility.",
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