I believe that the AI crypto trend is a marketing ploy, just as happens with any hot topic, as these cryptocurrencies exploit some words to facilitate advertising. All they need is attractive terms, an infusion of currency, and professional marketing, and you find everyone buying without even reading the white paper. Artificial intelligence, whether it is applications such as generation of text, image processing, video, etc. will be misused in cryptocurrencies.
It is the new buzzword, so anything that happens now is not an indicator of what this will do in the next 10years. It is possible that with AI many things might change but we should not forget that AI is only getting buzzed now, it was existing and running on different apps and services for a long time.
In crypto scammers are mostly using AI to forge images and writings that seem legitimate and appear nice looking in front of a gullible victim. It is sad that people always use advances in Science to their own greed but it is what we have to be careful about.
My opinion is to let the dust settle about this gold rush. Things will gain clarity further ahead.