With the #AI bubble in full swing many use the Gartner Hype Cycle as an illustration for where we are and how the next month will be. That feel reasonable but often comes with one uninterrogated assumption: The Gartner Hype Cycle implies that everything will at some point become useful/part of normal life etc.
But not everything comes back after the crash. Crypto didn't (so far). Metaverse didn't. And GenerativeAI also might very well not given that the costs are prohibitive, the quality is mediocre and the legal situation is dubious. Yes, genAI will stick around because it generates great spam. But implying that it will be kinda everywhere "like the Internet" is ... a very optimistic stretch.