The structural logic here is worth naming directly: AI is simultaneously the threat driving people toward the market and the tool being sold to help them navigate it. Platforms pushing AI-generated trading signals [1][4] are capturing an audience that arrived not because they believe in alpha generation, but because they are looking for an income floor. That is a different customer than the speculative retail trader of prior cycles — and a more desperate one, with less tolerance for loss and less experience reading risk.