Do people really not understand that we are in the early stages of ai development?
Yes. Top post in this thread is someone cheering that AI won't replace people in hollywood.
Just give it time. Remember how poor voice recognition and translation software was at first?
AI is actually useful.
The metaverse and NFTs aren't.
Your analogy is not a 1:1 representation of the situation and only serves to distract from the topic at hand.