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

https://www.404media.co/scammers-sell-seeds-for-exotic-ai-generated-flowers-that-dont-exist/
36•Brajeshwar•1h ago

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dvh•1h 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

gdulli•52m 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.
high_na_euv•39m ago
I dont think a few scams here and there outweight positive usecases
siriusastrebe•21m 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.
high_na_euv•13m ago
Maybe it will make ppl to be skeptic?
ceejayoz•12m ago
I take it you haven't met people.
Planktonne•19m 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.

cwillu•17m ago
I don't think a few stock photo replacements here and there outweigh the negative use-cases.
slopinthebag•8m 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.
namdnay•51m ago
those oversized "teddy bear" pictures are horrifying, looks like something from day of the triffids
jdw64•38m 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.
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v-w-v-w•26m 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.

codemog•7m 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.
speak_plainly•5m ago
Medieval grifts are back. We urgently need a modern Jack and the Beanstalk movie.
esafak•3m ago
Image generators should embed their prompts. And eBay should run a slop detector.

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