I suspect that there are plenty of Crypto enthusiasts who would say the say the same thing about crypto - the tragedy is that if the grifters are successful it's going to poison the AI market for another 5-10 years.
I think there is a fundamental difference when you have an actual usecase.
You can do useful things with AI, the market can reward people for being useful, and push out the stupid things.
You can't really do useful things with crypto. The ecosystem was a gradient between straight up fraud, to sketchy financial engineering projects that well technically not a scam are right on the border of being one. There is no room to reward actual progress so obviously the money is going to get dumped into the sketchy shit.
