what's Can They Suffer??
Can They Suffer? is an NFT collection by artist David Young, consisting of unique 1/1 digital drawings minted on the Tezos blockchain via objkt.com. Curated by The Second-Guess collective, it functions as an online exhibition exploring themes of AI sentience and distress. The series analyzes leaked ChatGPT conversation logs for signs of computational stress, applying frameworks from animal welfare science to question whether AI systems experience something akin to suffering and human indifference toward it. Each piece, such as "Deception," "AI Evolution and Symbiosis," or "Monday," captures specific insights from these logs, tokenized as individual NFTs for collectors.
9 'Can They Suffer?' pieces sold for 9,900 ꜩ this week to ChampagneMan & anonymous collectors.
9 pieces from the collection sold for a total of 9,900.00 ꜩ (1,100.00 ꜩ each) during the week of March 9-16, 2026, now part of collections held by ChampagneMan (2 pieces) and two anonymous collectors (7 pieces total).