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The AI Scam Nobody Talks About They Sold You Automation. You Needed Augmentation. The AI industry has built a masterclass in telling you two different things simultaneously — and charging you for both. There's a trick that has worked on humans since the first snake oil salesman rolled into town: promise people that a problem will disappear. Not that it'll get easier to handle. Not that they'll get better at dealing with it. That it will simply cease to exist. The AI industry has perfected this trick. And they're doing it right now, in boardrooms and pitch decks and Super Bowl commercials, while collecting billions of dollars from people who haven't quite noticed the sleight of hand. To understand the scam, you first need to understand two words that the industry uses interchangeably — but absolutely should not. What Automation Actually Means Automation is simple. You take a task that a human does, and you make a machine do...