people will say QC is a grift when it eventually becomes commercially viable

Specifically, QC will be a grift when the media tells us all it is now, finally, commercially viable.

Then it will remain a grift until it either dies off or reaches actual commercial vaibility.

No, I didn't say anything about AI. Who brought up AI? I'm pretty sure I didn't. Really? Nah. Doesn't sound like AI. Oh...yeah, I guess. Maybe it does.