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/

44•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•1h 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•56m ago

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

siriusastrebe•38m 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•30m ago

Maybe it will make ppl to be skeptic?

ceejayoz•29m ago

I take it you haven't met people.

kube-system•17m 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.

autoexec•5m 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.

Planktonne•36m 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•34m ago

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

slopinthebag•25m 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.

oneshtein•7m ago

Just make scams illegal — problem solved.

namdnay•1h ago

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

jdw64•55m 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•43m 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•24m 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•17m ago

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

speak_plainly•22m ago

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

esafak•20m ago

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

Chu4eeno•9m 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...).

pixel_popping•9m ago

Pretty smart, pretty smart.

fer•5m 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.

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