Abstract: "Learning is hard, mastery takes time, and time ripens all things. This may seem appalling in an age where instant gratification offers quick ways to write a thesis and get a degree without bothering to master a topic. If so, what about intellectual and academic integrity? What about the evaluation of learning? What about the quality of information provided by (generative) AI systems? Like all sectors, education is experiencing a crisis of legitimacy amplified by the ultra-fast and widespread adoption of (generative) AI. What's the point of spending several years on a school bench if we can pretend to know in seconds? This scam-like culture did not pop up out of nowhere. Its origins can be traced back to Silicon Valley where "fake it till you make it" has become a globalised motto nurtured by the gospel of tech solutionism. In this paper, we argue that there still is no sign of a revolution of AI in education, only in the media and corporate outlets. We are witnessing a corporate-AI coup, a digital stratagem to reclaim triumph in an already devastated sector, an attempt to appropriate leadership, taking over educational institutions' decision-making by promising solutions to systemic problems that are not solvable with them. We demonstrate it with varied examples. To maintain its appeal, the gospel of techno-solutionism, now supercharged by generative AI, enjoys the unpaid support of educational elites: educators and students using, beta-testing, and training AI technologies, thereby promoting the use of those technologies despite their flaws and negative implications. We analyse the origins and factors conditioning such an AI-dependent situation, demystifying its influence with factual analysis that educators outside the AI field may not possess, and suggest different narratives to facilitate understanding the AI bubble. If there is an AI revolution in education, it is the accelerated commodification of education at any cost. This paper shows a different, much-needed path forward."