David Gerard has spent much of the last half-decade thoroughly debunking the wilder (and often the not-so-wild) claims of people who claimed blockchain was a technology that would change and save the world.

Now he’s turned the same pin-sharp scepticism on LLM AI, in particular noting that many of those who have run grifts for blockchain and NFTs over the last few years are now the self-same people determined to convince the world that AI is coming to get you.