It could have been a web app, but with NFTs and Farcaster miniapps, you market to people who are willing and able to spend using their wallet instead of asking “normies” for credit card information for a 2 dollar custom image (that you could also prompt out of a free Gemini session).
With Farcaster, you also already have the profile picture of the user, one less hurdle again.
AI can be really attractive to bros but also be incredibly useful.
In other words, AI isn't a trend that's going to pass, it's permanently going to reshape the tech scene and economy in a way that cryptocoins and NFTs absolutely did not.
This exact wording was used for crypto. "It isn't a trend that's going to pass" and "It's going to reshape everything." Why are we sure of it now for AI (and that we're going to be right), when they were also sure of it before for crypto (and they ended up wrong)?
The AI people have the exact same feelings of absolute certainty as the crypto people had.
Probably zero grandmothers outside the west, and very few grandmothers within the west, know what NFT even stands for.
It's bunk.
Are people just expecting there's going to be enough digital fools to make a market?
A movie can be duplicated indefinitely. There's no guarantee your song will be appreciated as art. I'm not sure why you say you can't print out an image and hang it in your living room; we do that all the time at home.
I've personally never dabbled in NFTs, but I don't think it's fair to ascribe the inherent conflict between information and scarcity uniquely to them.