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Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

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

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

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Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy are unable to stop the flood of AI-generated seed scams.
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    1 month ago

    They look like boobs

  • notsosure@sh.itjust.works
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    Ah! An AI use case.

    • Tim_Bisley@piefed.social
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      Who knew AI would be useful for running scams…

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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        LLMs are truthiness generators.

      • VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca
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        Are you saying that the thing that is only good at lying and creating fake images/videos is good at scamming ? I am shocked !

    • BJW@lemmus.org
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      This can’t be AI. AI only creates forgeries of existing art! It’s incapable of creating anything new; I have it on good authority. Plus we’d know if AI had been used because all the water would be gone, the art stolen, and electricity would become unaffordable everywhere.

      I’ve never used it and never will.

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    I wish I didn’t have ethics more often than I am proud of, I could’ve been scamming people for years and made a very comfy life for myself

    • 13igTyme@piefed.social
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      I think it depends who you target. For example “Freedom water” is great because it’s just targeting MAGA dumbasses.

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      Does cat face orchid bonsai sound like a scam to you?!?

      • atrielienz@lemmy.world
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        It sounds like a fever nightmare.

        • justaman123@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          They catch moths

      • cmbabul@slrpnk.net
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        Well I will make an exception for them as they look very polite

        • diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.worldBanned
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          Kindly give me your credit card information

        • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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          And tasty.

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    If someone needs to use generative AI to market a product, then that product doesn’t exist.

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      I don’t think the product actually existing is something scammers are typically concerned about

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        But it’s a good rule of thumb for consumers. or at least for us to tell our parents.

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    FYI the bottom right in the picture is a real sunflower call Sun Gold.

    https://www.applewoodseed.com/product/sunflower-dwarf-sungold/

    Of course only comes in yellow.

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    Back in my day you got ripped off buying seeds from scammers good at Photoshop.

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      “Good”

      • rumba@lemmy.zip
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        You know, the tomatoes… not on the same plant, but we could GMO some crazy ass tomatoes.

        ThoughtEmporium, can you make us some glow in the dark tomatoes?

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          Not those blues, purples or greens.

          I’m growing some “The Eleven” tomatoes this year, which is a hybrid of a cherry tomato that was spliced with a Snapdraon flower to have higher levels of the anthocyanin, the antioxidant that’s found in many blue produce.

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        A slightly different shade of a flower is not THAT unreasonable.

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    Oh hell no, let this scam live. The more people that get fucked over by AI, the more chance we’ll have of making the fucking point.

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    If you fall for these half-assed AI photos, you probably deserve to be scammed.

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    Looks like Dr Seuss has a green thumb

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    Those flowers are sending off some form of primitive flight or fight response in my brain. Their appearance is unnatural and unsettling.

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      To be fair some real flowers look very weird, but those fake ones look like muppets.

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      Do you want Little Shop of Horrors? Because this is how you get Little Shop of Horrors!

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    Don’t buy seeds on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, etc - they are so full of scammers that it is impossible to weed out the legitimate sellers from the fake. And if you get fake ones, you may get invasive species that are harmful to the environment around you.

    Most places have some great local sellers. But if you’re buying online I would recommend dedicated places like Canada’s Vesey’s Seeds, West Coast Seeds, or the US’s Prairie Moon

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      Someone gifted me a bonsai kit off amazon that i cant use because every single seed packet is an invasive plant in my area. Unless the person who gifted it to me looked up every plant type, which is a big ask for them ability-wise, there was no way for them to have known from the product listing.

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        If you don’t let it propagate or put it in the ground, how is it being invasive hindering you from growing it as a bonsai.
        It’s literally potted and pruned and brought up as a house plant.

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    Yet another reason to plant seeds of species that are native to your region, and purchase them from reputable sources

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    funny how its mostly flowers that are either sunflowers, or daisies, are moslty in the asteracae family, not any other. succulents are mostly propagated by cuttings, or offshoots, rather than seeds because succulent from seeds takes a very long time to grow.

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    Atomic Shrimp did a really good video on the topic

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    I’m selling this sunflower seed. !!! Only 50 sun !!!

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