Not Investment Advice 278: Jack's Super Rare Upset, fwa.fun, Anthropic’s $1.5bil Settlement & AI vs. Labor Cost
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Jul 28, 2026 A surprise secondary sale of a SuperRare genesis piece sparks community reaction and meme fallout. A gacha-style NFT project, fwa.fun, is demoed and its depositor economics are debated. The ramifications of a $1.5B settlement over training on copyrighted books are unpacked. A discussion on AI replacing payroll with token costs and how that shifts scale economics rounds out the conversation.
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AI Hallucinations Can Create Their Own Narratives
- Grok hallucinated a different artwork (traffic cones) and misattributed Jack's sale, illustrating how AI summaries can invent plausible but false details.
- That hallucination amplified the story, showing aggregated falsehoods quickly become perceived facts.
Networks.art Launched As A New Primary Marketplace
- Jack described launching networks.art as an alternative primary marketplace with one-of-one winners and small patron editions for non-transferable tip-collecting.
- The platform emerged after Foundation shut down and aims to archive creators and create networked support.
Decentralized Gacha Machines Tokenize Real NFTs
- Fake World Assets (FWA.fun) is a decentralized gacha: anyone can deposit approved NFTs plus ETH backing and earn fees when players spin.
- Players choose the NFT, ETH payout, or native FWA token; the only way to buy FWA is by playing.