It's astonishing, the degree to which "AI" has literally always, regardless of the specific technologies involved, consisted of a particular academia-to-tech-startup pipeline full of amoral fuckheads whose product is grandiose and transparently undeliverable bullshit promises
and the target audience for grandiose bullshit remains literally the same cashbag suckers, who periodically go all-in for literally the same grift, run on them repeatedly