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The Man Who Calls BS On AI: AI Is The World’s Greatest SCAM, And They All Know It! | Ed Zitron

August 27, 2026·2h 27m·6-min readconversationaltechnology
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Generative AI, as currently marketed and deployed, is a financial and technological con built on overpromising, unsustainable spending, and misleading narratives. The industry's claims of economic transformation, job replacement, and inevitable progress are not supported by data, and its co

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