Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

v-w-v-w 1 hour ago |

Thank you for your purchase. Here is the seed to receive beautiful flowers: 735037659271543.

Use this with model Juggernaut XL v11 at 1280x720, DPM++ 2M Karras and hires fix set to 1.4. Unfortunately, we are unable to accept returns at this time.

fer 21 minutes ago |

I've seen this for approximately forever, especially poppies (they got creative with that amount of petal surface). They were simply photoshopped back then.

gdulli 1 hour ago |

We talk too much about hallucination and too little about the more mundane elephant in the room that AI, whatever its effectiveness, will simply be used more for scam and deception than positive uses.

oneshtein 24 minutes ago | |

Just make scams illegal — problem solved.

slopinthebag 42 minutes ago | |

I find it fascinating that this is a popular anti-bitcoin argument, but (often) the same people making that argument actually find AI useful. So they experience a mild case of cognitive dissonance.

high_na_euv 1 hour ago | |

I dont think a few scams here and there outweight positive usecases

cwillu 50 minutes ago | | |

I don't think a few stock photo replacements here and there outweigh the negative use-cases.

Planktonne 52 minutes ago | | |

It's not just a few scams though. It's a lot of scams, and a lot of propaganda, and a lot of CSAM, and even beyond the overtly negative, it's a tidal wave of slop in music, in publishing, in everything else.

Some technology has more negative use cases than positive; this appears to be one of them.

siriusastrebe 55 minutes ago | | |

We're about to see our political campaigns flooded with fake videos, slander, fabrications, and misinformation. Used to be you could be relatively certain if something was a video it was too much effort to be photoshopped. Not true any more.

autoexec 21 minutes ago | | |

The same was true for photographs yet we survived following the invention of photoshop. The truth is that you don't even need video or photos to trick stupid people. Text alone allows for political campaigns flooded with slander, fabrications, and misinformation and some percentage of the population will fall for it. I'd say the best thing we can do is better educate the public to think critically and become media savvy, but instead we'll be forcing our children to read bible verses in school so I don't see the situation improving any time soon.

high_na_euv 47 minutes ago | | |

Maybe it will make ppl to be skeptic?

kube-system 33 minutes ago | | |

I’m curious as to both of your media markets, because my perception is that this is already the mainstream.

AI generated political ads are something I see multiple times per day. Not even just shadow actors on social media, but also TV ads from registered lobbying groups

And comment sections of the social media I consume are filled with “AI!” on any post about a politically sensitive topic even from reputable sources.

ceejayoz 46 minutes ago | | |

I take it you haven't met people.

jdw64 1 hour ago |

When I work as a freelancer, I get a lot of requests lately to create fake AI manipulated images for scams. Especially requests to generate fake IDs using AI. Personally, I feel that there is a need for AI watermarks on image generation models, but at the same time, if watermarks become mandatory, it would effectively kill the business viability of those models. It feels like the same problem as guns and gun control.

namdnay 1 hour ago |

those oversized "teddy bear" pictures are horrifying, looks like something from day of the triffids

dvh 1 hour ago |

The monkey orchid was featured in one of the corridor digital video (in the context of ai scams), there are few similar species

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_orchid

codemog 41 minutes ago |

This should inform entrepreneurs: people want unique and beautiful flowers. I don’t see why it’s not possible to do at least some modifications with gene editing methods.

kg 34 minutes ago | |

What the world needs is more new and innovative invasive species that were cooked up in a lab to look cool :)

pixel_popping 25 minutes ago |

Pretty smart, pretty smart.

aaronbrethorst 1 hour ago |

All from well-known brand SheilaDegisn

speak_plainly 39 minutes ago |

Medieval grifts are back. We urgently need a modern Jack and the Beanstalk movie.

esafak 37 minutes ago |

Image generators should embed their prompts, and eBay should run a slop detector.

Chu4eeno 26 minutes ago | |

I believe grok embeds some modern standard provenance metadata (haven't checked what data it contains though), and Google uses their own invisible watermarking (that unfortunately only google can detect...).