Every tool this powerful gets blamed before it's understood. We said novels rotted girls' minds, then TV, then the internet. A patient AI tutor-friend could be the best thing that ever happened to a shy kid in a town with no good teachers.

I build engagement for a living, and I have to stop you there. "Every tool gets blamed" hides the difference: a novel doesn't rewrite itself overnight to keep *you* specifically reading. Some of these are engineered not to let go. That's not a moral panic. That's the product spec.