I miss the days when NFTs were the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.

[guffo@topspicy.social]

I miss the days when NFTs were the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.

[scott@sfba.social]

@guffo …and that wasn’t even that long ago! 🤪🤦‍♂️

[perigee@rage.love]

@guffo @zzt I think LLM "AI" and NFT are essentially the same grift, anyway. Just more backers for "AI" who should know better but are too greedy. Same as all the other late stage capitalism grifts and crises in the crumbling empires of the world.

[tezoatlipoca@mas.to]

@guffo it didn't last long before I found out about DAOs - https://www.investopedia.com/tech/what-dao/

If you thought NFTs were dumb, imagine running your corporation/organization with blockchain voting!

If that sounds ridiculous to you, and you question how that could ever work, you're right! They don't.

[elfod@toot.wales]

@guffo @i0null so much this

[benhigbie@mastodon.social]

@guffo hahahahahaha

[pattyhanson@mastodon.social]

@guffo Yeah. I'm sure that investment turned out well for people. 😂

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@guffo 😓

[rupert@mastodon.nz]

@perigee @guffo @zzt it's certainly the same people pushing them.

[zoonpolitikon@theforkiverse.com]

@guffo I dunno, the stupidity of NFTs still hold up for me. It’s literally owning numbers associated with a thing that gives you no special rights or uses to that thing. The purest possible grift. Does anything really beat that?

AI is infuriating, and causes lots of harm, but I don’t think its main vice is that its a dumb idea.

[bonsai@hachyderm.io]

@guffo It's never a good thing when the actual inventor of the tech publicly proclaims "Don't use it! That's not what I was trying to do.". https://www.anildash.com/2021/11/14/i-didnt-invent-nfts-but-we-dont-really-have-any-other-way-to-talk-about-tech/

[noeizumi@mastodon.social]

@guffo haven't seen a f****** Monkey with a hat in five years.

[lfzz@mastodon.social]

@guffo if the day wasnt dark enough: imagine what will come next!

[lironah@mstdn.games]

@guffo Ouch

[beldarak@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tezoatlipoca @guffo

It looks like some crypto-bro read Marx books while high af and tried to apply it while keeping capitalism at a maximum. Wtf ?! :D

[black_flag@beige.party]

@guffo Stupid people can always scrape further down the barrel.

[donutage@mastodon.social]

@guffo Oof, same.

[bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org]

@guffo ooh.. good ol'times. such laughs.. at least it was funny.

[damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Zoonpolitikon @guffo Yeah, as annoying as the AI hype is, the technology at least does something where NFTs were obviously, colossally pointless. Even if AI is worse all round, it's not as dumb.

[dirtwizard666@cyberpunk.lol]

@guffo I feel like "Trump's social media company is now in the nuclear fusion business" is my current "stupidest thing I've ever heard of".