Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist (404media.co)
45 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago
v-w-v-w an 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 35 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.
dvh 2 hours ago
The monkey orchid was featured in one of the corridor digital video (in the context of ai scams), there are few similar species
namdnay 2 hours ago
those oversized "teddy bear" pictures are horrifying, looks like something from day of the triffids
jdw64 an 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.
gdulli 2 hours 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 37 minutes ago
Just make scams illegal — problem solved.
slopinthebag an hour 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 an hour ago
I dont think a few scams here and there outweight positive usecases
cwillu an hour ago
I don't think a few stock photo replacements here and there outweigh the negative use-cases.
Planktonne an hour 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 an hour 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 35 minutes ago
high_na_euv an hour ago
codemog an hour 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 an hour ago
What the world needs is more new and innovative invasive species that were cooked up in a lab to look cool :)
aaronbrethorst an hour ago
All from well-known brand SheilaDegisn
pixel_popping 39 minutes ago
Pretty smart, pretty smart.
speak_plainly an hour ago
Medieval grifts are back. We urgently need a modern Jack and the Beanstalk movie.
esafak an hour ago
Image generators should embed their prompts, and eBay should run a slop detector.
Chu4eeno 39 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...).