Science journalism's AI story has a consistent protagonist: the tool that compresses time between idea and result. A rocket engine designed by AI fires on the first attempt [10]. A molecular prediction toolkit arrives with peer-reviewed credibility intact [4]. The human heart becomes navigable for students through a visualization tool [9]. Each story is true. What the frame excludes is the population of researchers who used similar tools this week and found that the compression was real but the compression came at a cost the headline cannot hold.