I learnt my own lesson about some useless use cases in crypto Projects through Airdrop hunting. I have something against the following use cases like
1. Artificial Intelligence projects
2. Gold backed tokens
3. Deflation tokens
Why? They hardly survives because they are mostly based on lies, these use cases are scammers favorite tools to deceive
This isn't the case most of the time. They can imitate whatever they like as long as it is convincing or appealing to crypto-folks.
You should know how to spot the fake project by
[1] Go to Google.com
[2] Search "name of the project + review bitcointalk"
Tadah, you are now one click away to know what the Bitcointalker geniuses think of that specific project you were about to explore.
While doing so, beware of self moderated threads as the starter of that topic can delete any hostile messages.
And the forum review might not be always sufficient to make a decision as there have been cases of hyped project in this forum and some even endorsed by popular forum figures turned out to be scam. Some prominent DT members and I guess a staff member too lost their position just for promoting fake ICOs knowingly. So, it's better to look at every aspects.