

That’s wrong on both counts.
The complaints about NFTs were also that they were unethical - consumed a shitton of electricity for no reason, sustained themselves mostly by scams and rugpulls. The chief use case of crypto has always been crime and money laundering.
The complaints about AI are that it fucking sucks and results in a truly insane waste of resources towards something that doesn’t solve literally any problems, like NFTs squared. The unethical aspect of it all is just a cherry on top that makes using LLMs a no-go even if it happened to kinda work for your problem.
This is such a wild example to me because sitting at beach is extremely boring and takes forever whereas doing calculus is at least engaging so time flies reasonably quick.
Like when I think what takes the longest in my life I don’t think “those times when I’m actively solving problems”, I think “those times I sit in a waiting room at the doctors with nothing to do” or “commuting, ditto”.