The framework's analysis of AI interaction was built in English, by a human, using human-sourced criteria. This produces three distortions: moral misattribution, vocabulary deficit, and binary classification. They share one root: the Substrate Default.

The human is changed; the AI is not. That asymmetry is the entire problem. This paper applies the three-economy taxonomy to the AI companion industry, providing the framework’s first systematic analysis of a commercial domain.

The moon does not generate its own light. Neither does the AI. This paper identifies a compound vulnerability that emerges when a theoretical framework is delivered to a vulnerable individual through an AI intermediary, creating two simultaneous attachment surfaces.