It seems to me it's just another hype. No doubts, it's a useful tool that can HELP you, but it won't do the entire work instead of you. You must have skills, knowledge, vision to success
There have been AI related coins since a very long time ago but they never received the attention they are receiving now, however with the reveal of ChatGPT the circumstances changed dramatically and opportunistic developers and scammers took advantage of it.
And even if there were a few projects that were worth anything, now is almost impossible to find them thanks to the huge amount of AI coins which have been created recently.