AI isn’t replacing scammers. It’s letting smaller crews run more scams at once. @chainalysis found scam operations with observed links to AI vendors averaged $3.2 million in on-chain revenue, versus $719,000 for those without. The real shift is cost: fake identities, conversations and persuasion are getting cheaper to scale. https://cryptoslate.com/ai-was-supposed-to-take-scammers-jobs-but-it-gave-them-superpowers-instead/