I feel it's gotten worse over time, with crypto came a new sort of grifter that was far more aggressively pushing their grift with nearly religious overtones.

I feel it's gotten worse over time, with crypto came a new sort of grifter that was far more aggressively pushing their grift with nearly religious overtones. Some of those people seem to have abandoned ship and moved to AI instead, largely taking the playbook with them. With short term flash in the pan hype cycles like that superconductor one, prediction markets astroturfing also seems involved. Basically the more hype you drum up, the more people you can lure into betting on room temperature superconductors, the more money you stand to win when it turns out to be nothing of the sort.