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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: What are NFT's?
gpt
It is essentially buying a ‘certificate of authenticity’ for a thing, usually a piece of digital media. But it doesn’t actually get you The Thing as anyone can also save and have the thing. You’re the only one who has that ‘certificate’ (not actually a certificate) but since everyone can still copy The Thing itself and have it at the same level of quality it’s pretty useless. Manufactured exclusivity.