The commercial case for AI host messaging is airtight: hosts managing multiple properties spend two to four hours daily on guest communication, and AI tools collapse that to near zero. The problem is that the efficiency gain was built entirely on one side of the conversation. Guests interacting with 'Alexis' or 'Peter' are not interacting with a person who owns or manages the property — they are interacting with a system trained on prior conversations, vendor documentation, and host-supplied instructions, none of which they consented to be processed by .…