This is by design— the rhetoric around crypto was specifically tailored to emulate all the new-exciting-tech talking points in an attempt to get new people to buy in to the market and prop up the next rug pull.

Every new culturally significant tech is going to sound like crypto from now on. And ultimately I think it is too easy to cynically look at all tech hype through the lens of crypto.

I think it is pretty fair to say that LLMs have already achieved several magnitudes more real use cases than crypto ever did.

> I think it is pretty fair to say that LLMs have already achieved several magnitudes more real use cases than crypto ever did.

If you include black market economic activity, then crypto has done way more and over a much longer period

> If you include black market economic activity

I don’t

> more real use cases than crypto ever did.

Indeed, with crypto the suckers needed to do the hallucinating themselves. LLMs automate that and do it for you.

But bitcoin and ethereum are near all time highs, while Alexa is laying everyone off and AI has no paying customers…

The question is the cost to value ratio. There is some value in LLM's, the question is if people are willing to foot the cost.