Obviously if any DeFi project is suspicious, one should be aware that they will continue to do their part to start a lot of scams with a project they created under a new name.
Yeah, of course. And I don't know how many DeFi projects are out there (it'd be nice to see some data on that if I knew where to look), but the scammers are obviously using the DeFi hype to lure their victims in, as OP alluded to--just like with ICOs when they were the hot new thing.
the project generated photos of team members using a neural network. Photos were generated on the site
https://generated.photos/ Not that I doubt you, but how do you know they used that website? I didn't click on the Twitter link since I don't use them and don't want to contribute to their traffic, but has that been verified?