They aren't selling tokens only: they are selling tokens in return for money and, most importantly, harvesting of semantic trajectories.
I think, sooner or later this data coupled to model capability will be exploited successfully and will cause an interesting point in human civilization as we know it.
At present, you are right, this is not the case -- the data is not exploited successfully and the models are lacking.
The difficulty comes from the novelty on the information level: we are building systems which fold and compund information. We are beginning to learn how to manipulate them.
I think, sooner or later this data coupled to model capability will be exploited successfully and will cause an interesting point in human civilization as we know it.
At present, you are right, this is not the case -- the data is not exploited successfully and the models are lacking.
The difficulty comes from the novelty on the information level: we are building systems which fold and compund information. We are beginning to learn how to manipulate them.
There needn't be any time frame to any of this.