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title: "AI Smoke & Mirrors: Long Live AI"
description: "BUYER BEWARE: Meet the AI Salesman. In the age of generative AI, can a professional marketing agency be replaced by a few clever prompts and a handful of SaaS subscriptions?"
---

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# [AI Smoke & Mirrors: Long Live AI](https://inbound.six.marketing/blog/ai-smoke-mirrors-long-live-ai)

 Written by [Christopher Ryan](https://inbound.six.marketing/blog/author/christopher-ryan) | Nov 22, 2025

 

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