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

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v-w-v-w today at 4:44 PM
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.

dvh today at 3:56 PM
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

namdnay today at 4:19 PM
those oversized "teddy bear" pictures are horrifying, looks like something from day of the triffids
jdw64 today at 4:32 PM
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.
fer today at 5:22 PM
I've seen this for approximately forever, especially poppies (they got creative with that amount of petal surface). They were simply photoshopped back then.
gdulli today at 4:18 PM
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.
DivingForGold today at 6:04 PM
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.

codemog today at 5:03 PM
This should inform entrepreneurs: people want unique and beautiful flowers. I donโ€™t see why itโ€™s not possible to do at least some modifications with gene editing methods.
aaronbrethorst today at 4:37 PM
All from well-known brand SheilaDegisn
pixel_popping today at 5:18 PM
Pretty smart, pretty smart.
speak_plainly today at 5:04 PM
Medieval grifts are back. We urgently need a modern Jack and the Beanstalk movie.
esafak today at 5:06 PM
Image generators should embed their prompts, and eBay should run a slop detector.