Can't believe I'm doing this... but here I go, actually defending cryptocurrency/blockchain :

... so yes there are some functionalities to AI. In fact I don't think anybody is saying 100% of it is BS and a scam, rather... just 99.99% of the marketing claims during the last decade ARE overhyped if not plain false. One could say the same for crypto/blockchain, namely that SQLite or a random DB or is enough for most people BUT there are SOME cases where it might actually be somehow useful, ideally not hijacked by "entrepreneurs" (namely VC tools) who only care about making money but not what the technology could actually bring.

Now anyway both AI & crypto use an inconceivable amount of resources (energy, water, GPU and dedicated hardware, real estimate, R&D top talent, human resources for dataset annotation including very VERY gruesome ones, etc) so yes even if in 0.01% they are actually useful one still must ask, is it worth it? Is it OK to burn literally tons of CO2eq ... to generate an image that one could have done quite easily another way? Summarize a text?

IMHO both AI & crypto are not entirely useless in theory yet in practice have been :

• hijacked by VCs and grifters or all kinds,
• abused by pretty terrible people, including scammers and spammers,
• absolutely underestimated in terms of resource consumption and thus ecological and societal impact

So... sure, go generate some "stuff" if you want to but please be mindful of what it genuinely costs.