12 comments

  • v-w-v-w 1 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.

  • 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

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_orchid

  • namdnay 2 hours ago
    those oversized "teddy bear" pictures are horrifying, looks like something from day of the triffids
  • jdw64 2 hours 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.
    • armchairhacker 28 minutes ago
      AFAIK the big models have watermarks that are supposed to be hard to remove. But I don’t think it’s possible on local models: not just questionable because it would prevent full open-source, but if someone discovers a way to easily remove a local model’s watermark, it will work permanently.

      It’s a bit analogous to New York and California regulating 3D printers (which I disapprove). But more invasive, because local models are software, and here the danger is not guns but photos.

  • fer 1 hour 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.
  • 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 1 hour ago
      Just make scams illegal — problem solved.
    • slopinthebag 1 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.
      • hansvm 10 minutes ago
        The Bitcoin argument is usually paired with "there are no non-scam use cases which aren't better served by other methods/tech."
    • high_na_euv 2 hours ago
      I dont think a few scams here and there outweight positive usecases
      • cwillu 1 hour ago
        I don't think a few stock photo replacements here and there outweigh the negative use-cases.
      • Planktonne 1 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 1 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 1 hour 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.
        • high_na_euv 1 hour ago
          Maybe it will make ppl to be skeptic?
          • kube-system 1 hour 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.

          • ceejayoz 1 hour ago
            I take it you haven't met people.
  • DivingForGold 38 minutes ago
    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 1 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 1 hour ago
      What the world needs is more new and innovative invasive species that were cooked up in a lab to look cool :)
  • aaronbrethorst 2 hours ago
    All from well-known brand SheilaDegisn
  • pixel_popping 1 hour ago
    Pretty smart, pretty smart.
  • speak_plainly 1 hour ago
    Medieval grifts are back. We urgently need a modern Jack and the Beanstalk movie.
  • esafak 1 hour ago
    Image generators should embed their prompts, and eBay should run a slop detector.
    • Chu4eeno 1 hour 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...).
    • sph 33 minutes ago
      And we should solve world hunger while we’re at it.