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- ChatGPT-backed ‘living AI NFTs’ offered on Twitter: What’s wrong with this ‘mint’
- Can AI create NFTs?
Fake ChatGPT NFTs promoted on Twitter
Vladislav Sopov
Highly Suspicious Twitter Account Invites You To Create ‘First Live AI NFT’ But There Are Too Many Red Flags
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Last week, a suspicious Twitter account began aggressively promoting a very eccentric offer. Apparently, any OpenSea user can create “living NFTs” they can talk to for just $470.
ChatGPT-backed ‘living AI NFTs’ offered on Twitter: What’s wrong with this ‘mint’
As of March 2, 2023, an anonymous Twitter account calling itself “ChatGPT”—just like the common chatbot by OpenAI that sparked the “AI craze” in December 2022—offers its 13,000 followers to create unusual NFTs.
Allegedly, anyone can get what is being marketed as the “first living AI-powered non-fungible token.” According to the statements of the project, such NFTs are supported by “Optimus ChatGPT” technology and can interact with people.
Also, they are said to be able to perform tasks on behalf of their masters – “minters” should only have an account on OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace:
Communicate with your NFT, instruct it to do tasks on your behalf and much more. Check your OpenSea wallet after embossing to activate Optimus
Needless to say, this campaign is full of red flags. First, OpenAI, the only company associated with ChatGPT, is silent about its tokens, fungible or non-fungible. The only “Optimus ChatGPT” website was created two days ago and only has a “mint” button.
The Twitter account of the coin is promoted by thousands of aggressive bots who share their excitement in comments and replies. The account posts announcements every four hours, and each time it offers a new price for one NFT, between 0.1 and 0.3 Ethers (ETH).
Can AI create NFTs?
What makes this scam even more dangerous is the legitimate background of the Twitter account. It was most likely hacked – before February 2023, it had never published in English in its three-year history (it was active since Q3 2020). It is followed by the IEO dashboard Trustpad, which can be confusing for gullible investors.
It’s worth noting that despite its impressive toolset, ChatGPT cannot create NFTs itself. It can write a code example for an ERC 721 or ERC 1155 contract, but then it should be deployed to Ethereum (ETH) via Remix or Truffle development tools.
These “AI-generated NFTs” will look exactly like “regular” NFT templates available in the OpenZeppelin codebase, so they will not be able to mimic human interaction or in any way act on behalf of their masters. In both cases – with OpenZeppelin + Remix and with ChatGPT – you can get an NFT contract sample for free, so there is no need to pay for minting “AI-backed” tokens.
