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Zuckersaurus Rex, Giganotobezos and Spinomusk will unleash datacenter world domination in t minus 6 7 months. St. Judes Kabuto tried to warn us! You will no longer invest in cards, cards will invest in you. The new order will be chosen by the inscrutable algorithms of artificial intelligence. Its deformed 6-fingered hand reaches out from the virtual heavens to anoint the apostolic bulk card owners. It is no longer about owning Manhattan, it is about owning Horsea, Dark Primeape and Erika’s Tangela.
I am convinced that modern pokemon fans will continue to find ways to pump & dump things that are impossible to predict with AI. There would need to be some sort of logical/predictable reason for AI to grab on after all
I’m sure it’s already being used, it already dominates other markets and replaced people I wouldn’t be surprised if there some jobless guy in his mother’s basement training some open AI to purchase PC items based on market prices
I totally missed this QOTD. This was my suggested question from a WHILE back. The basis for the question was from using TCG Fish for the first time. IIRC there was a feature on the application that would suggest cards it believed to be undervalued based on certain data points. Additionally, users manually enter their purchases the dates of purchases etc to track their returns.
I’m no AI expert but it didn’t seem farfetch’d to me that you could conceivably use that data to train an AI model, spit out cards the model deems undervalued to the ‘what should I buy’ crowd and create a self fulfilling prophecy.
With that being said it appears TCG fish is no longer operational and/or has pivoted into Taiwanese cuisine. There are other similar tools though.
Seems like it would probably make a pretty reasonable model in an unreasonable reality so not sure if it would be helpful with all the anomalous hype and shilling but it would be amazing to make and follow.
I’m sure a lot of people have done this to some capacity. I sure have. And it was a nightmare.
It has never once been helpful. There are so many data points just with the cards alone that having thousands of cards to run through for sold data vs finished sales vs shills while ALSO knowing the number that the card is in the set so it doesn’t confuse the Charizard SIR for the Charizard SIR. And don’t even get me started on if we were to bring the Charizard SIR into it. It would just be too much.
I don’t ever imagine someone having the capacity to have that information available and usable just from their own computer that they have on their desk. A room full of servers and hardware? Sure, but I’m sure that that person will do really well while everyone else has to just do what everyone else is doing.
Right. My thought was more so it would feed into it, people would take it as gospel and drive up prices.
To clarify further I’m not in the ‘Pokemon investing’ community at all. I’ve just noticed that many who are, tend to blindly follow the advice of content creators and repeat the talking points. It seems logical that a model could easily replace influencers who make that type of content and ‘dominate’ that market. For better or worse.
AI will get good at identifying current-market flipping opportunities once a dedicated platform gets built (some probably exist privately already) but I doubt it will be strong at long-term “investing.” And if it did, it would tell you to just buy the S&P 500.
