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

dvh

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

gdulli

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.

namdnay

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

jdw64

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.

aaronbrethorst

All from well-known brand SheilaDegisn

v-w-v-w

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.

codemog

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.

speak_plainly

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

esafak

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

pixel_popping

Pretty smart, pretty smart.

fer

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

DivingForGold

I have been lied to multiple times, sellers claiming to sell me seeds for the relatively rare pink flowered version of "Pride of Barbados", most off Ebay, from foreign countries. All of them germinated and grew to the common orange-yellow version. I gave up trying.