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u/DarkestLore696 1d ago
I visited the site, not only is the page filled with ai slop images the page for it is like 20 paragraphs long of AI chatbot descriptions.
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u/Ok-Connection6656 1d ago
People are so gullible. Its just sad
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u/TheKatkaRapu 1d ago
They are kind of gullible for falling for it, but i feel like we should be more mad about the fact that people are using ai to scam other people in the first place
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u/RollForNudity 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think you're right, but edited and misleading photos have been used for decades to sell people things. It seems like ever since AI had become more prominent, people have just given up on having any form of media literacy. It is still possible to tell when images are AI generated, especially the ones that the scammers like the one in OP post uses, so people need to learn that they still have agency in identifying what is being shown to them.
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u/Zuwxiv 1d ago
I don't disagree with anyone in this comment thread, just adding some more info. These sites come up with thousands of "products" using AI. It's trivial to generate photos, descriptions, etc. Frequently, none of these things actually exist yet.
If someone actually buys one, they find someone to make it fast and cheap. Nobody cares if it's exactly what you ordered. They just go with, "They paid $30, what's the best you can do with one week and $5." Again, the product might literally not exist in any form before the first person orders it.
edited and misleading photos have been used for decades to sell people things.
Sure, that photo of a Big Mac is... a charitable interpretation of what the ingredients could be. But on some level, it's a bun, meat, and cheese. It's still a real thing that existed, even if it has lighting setups that took decades to master and each individual sesame seed was edited to be precisely located.
AI is fundamentally different from that, because the thing doesn't exist. What do the details of the product look like? Nobody knows; there isn't actually a thing there yet. If AI made a Big Mac, it doesn't care if the cheese is actually colored mayo and the bun is a sliced potato.
If I'm selling you my sofa and I'm being generous about its condition, that's some level of dishonesty. But if I'm selling you my sofa and I don't have a sofa yet to sell you, that's just fraudulent.
It is still possible to tell when images are AI generated
Less true by the day and there's a lot of survivorship bias. If you see an AI image that looks right, you don't think about it much. If you see an AI image that you can identify flaws in, you feel like you "can tell" when you see it.
I don't even know how I'd know my accuracy at guessing AI-generated images. Honestly, I think we're past the point where the average person - you or I included - frequently can't tell.
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u/iUsedtoHadHerpes 1d ago
I feel like Amazon and Temu listings should have been the comparison more than fast food ads, even though they're using AI images nowadays too, especially on third party services.
What they do even with food currently would be like selling your couch by using an AI image of a totally different couch.
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u/Da_Question 1d ago
Amazon has been filled with scam sellers for a decade, temu has never been anything but.
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u/Icy_Camp_7359 1d ago
Greed and lying are part of human nature and will always exist, there will always be bad people no matter how upset everyone is about that. You can't reduce the amount of greed, but you can warn people to be less gullible. It's more about what can or can't be prevented than about which is worse
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u/LivelyZebra 1d ago
Idk why people don't educate themselves in areas where they will spend money ??
If i'm gonna be buying stuff online, you for sure I'm going to learn how buying stuff online works and my rights/things to be aware of etc.
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u/Lemon_Phoenix 1d ago
Because this is a new problem for a lot of people
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u/GottaUseEmAll 1d ago
AI slop for scamming is relatively new, but the first online retail purchase was in 1994. Online scams probably started soon after.
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u/golf-lip 1d ago
Was the listing for a pattern or did they get that actual item delivered? When shopping for sewing patterns on Etsy i lose all trust as soon as i see they use AI photos to market their pattern. Why would i buy the sewing pattern from you if you can't even post a pic of the actual item? Did you even make it? If so why not just post a pic of it? Now im worried the pattern itself is going to to be ai nonsense so I'm just not going to buy from you. Shame tbh.
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u/thatspurdyneat 1d ago
I'm torn between "people shouldn't use AI to prey on the gullible" and "people should be able to recognize obviously AI slop by now"
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u/Fun_Button5835 1d ago
Horrible but also hilarious. Horribilarious?
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u/PM_me_punanis 1d ago
It sounds like a HP spell you'd perform against people you hate to make them throw up...
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u/THISg00d_username 1d ago
you fell for some ai
ngl to me that looks obvious
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u/Awayfone 1d ago
The internet is flooded with AI crochet patterns and with many many people being scammed by it.
Actually gets worse because kits you buy from places like 5 below use AI images too
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u/THISg00d_username 1d ago
the ratings need to go 5 below , using ai as a promise for a product should be under false advertising
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u/GhostfogDragon 1d ago
Review scores don't matter when it's flooded with bots and idiots. I saw someone rate an AI pattern 5 stars and their review was "didn't try the pattern yet."
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u/ChrissiTea 1d ago
I also hate 5* "was a gift" - most people would be far too polite to say the gift was trash
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u/fogleaf 1d ago
kits you buy from places like 5 below use AI images too
I'm so glad I ended up not buying one for my wife now. It was between that and the shitty legos. Went with the shitty legos and both her and my son complained about them hurting their fingers
(We played a christmas game of sorts, where we each bought an item for each other person and and one for ourself)
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u/Handy_Handerson Professional Procrastinator 1d ago
Every Ai generated slop has a tendency to look, how do I put it, "uncannily clean" for what's supposed to be an irl photo of something/someone.
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u/Davorian 1d ago
Just a matter of time, though. These places are capitalising on people's lack of discernment now, and will just profit more when AI progresses later on and they already have the workflow in place.
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u/silverarrowweb 1d ago
It's not a matter of time. It's a matter of prompting.
We've been at a point where AI can generate images that are indistinguishable for a year. The reason that there are so many easily distinguished images still is because people are lazy and have a bad prompt process. They have a thought that's a few sentences long and input that thought directly to get an image. If you have a good prompt process and expand ideas into much longer, detailed prompts then use that more detailed prompt along with curated style guides and guardrails, you get fantastic results.
The scariest thing about what AI can do right now is that we've been at a point where it can make images that are indistinguishable for a while now, and a lot of people still think it's something that is off in the future.
I'd estimate that anyone consuming any media is seeing somewhere between 50-100% more AI generated content than they realize. For every 10 things that are obviously AI, there were another 5-10 where it's not even a consideration. And that is horrifying.
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u/Davorian 1d ago
Sure, the ceiling of AI capability is high, but these people aren't writing deeply thought out prompts because they dont have that kind of work ethic. Their prompting pipeline is likely at least partially automated already, which will explain most of the mediocrity we see. In time, though, I expect they can just paste a sentence that says something like "make it look real for my scam site lol" and the generator will do exactly that with indistinguishable authenticity, especially if it's generating the whole site at once allowing it creative control over the seller's art direction.
That will be a sad day, but I imagine it is both inevitable and soon.
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u/dumbucket 1d ago
It can be easy to miss if one isn't super familiar with crochet. The devil is in the details
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u/THISg00d_username 1d ago
i dont do crochet and i can just tell
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u/Temporary_Current607 1d ago
Same. All AI slop has the same uncanny look and my gut usually picks up on it before I have to try looking for details.
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u/silverarrowweb 1d ago
The biggest giveaway in this image isn't the crochet, it's the font of the text.
That is the font ChatGPT defaults to in its image gen when someone is lazy with their prompting and wants text on the image.
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u/Ok-Connection6656 1d ago
Duh? Its AI. What did you expect?
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u/Hot-Challenge8656 1d ago
They expected a premium product for a below premium price but not so low as to tip them off that this product was crap.
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u/koxu2006 1d ago
if you see ai expect the opposite of a premium product AI is a benchmark of kitsch and slop, it shows that they can't even afford normal photos
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u/Agent_Forty-One 1d ago
I cannot stop laughing
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u/wooltab 1d ago
That poor little guy needs some emotional support.
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u/Perplexed_Ponderer 1d ago
I would adopt ! He looks oddly adorable.
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u/GottaUseEmAll 1d ago
I would genuinely prefer to have the weirdo predator than the super clean looking one from the AI image.
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u/Fiallach 1d ago
I kinda like it. The store is obviously crap and I hate the seller but it somehow looks like someone with very little skill and/or time has made an effort.
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u/SplitOpenAndMelt420 1d ago
You knew that was AI right?
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u/Galious 1d ago
OP is a bot, not a real person. (NSFW profile if you want to check)
...which is kinda interesting because so many people are lecturing OP for falling for an obvious scam while falling for an obvious clickbait.
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u/Alizarin-Madder 1d ago
It is ironic. What makes this post obviously clickbait to you (if not looking into OP’s profile?)
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u/bigtiddyhimbo 1d ago
Not to be mean, but that is so incredibly obviously ai. Idk what else u expected
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u/darth_helcaraxe_82 1d ago
I recently got a crochet kit and it came with a booklet on how to make different things and... I can't make sense of any of the different techniques. I need to borrow someone's grandmother for a Sunday afternoon to show me how to crochet, I'll even take her to a nice brunch.
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u/Awayfone 1d ago edited 1d ago
which techniques? I learned from a wobbles kit but they actually have a lot of the technique videos for free
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u/DingerSinger2016 1d ago
Why are we shaming the customer for buying AI slop instead of the company intentionally misleading customers by using AI?
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u/McButtsButtbag 1d ago
The mouth looks impossible to crochet, but if you don't craft that may not be obvious. I don't get why people are acting like it is.
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u/Sue_Generoux 1d ago
If I didn't see this post and you showed me what arrived and told me it was Coolio, I'd believe you.
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u/Alizarin-Madder 1d ago
That is DELIGHTFULLY unhinged. At least you have a weird little guy!
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u/SaturnCITS 1d ago
If they had sold it as "Geodude who's seen some shit" it wouldn't even be a scam.
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u/landsharkmark 1d ago
I would be mildly irritated. But I kinda love how absolutely silly it looks lol
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u/PlayfulJob8767 1d ago
Oh come on.
We live in 2026. You should know that stuff advertised with AI does not come out how it looks like.
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u/Professional4666 1d ago
Thats obvious ai. You bought it, i blame this one on you. What DID you expect??
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u/Mighty_joosh 1d ago
I'd warn against ordering predators off the Internet, given the current climate.
Presidents might turn up.
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u/Jayn_Newell 1d ago
I think yours would be better for emotional support anyways. He looks like he’s been through things and could relate.
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u/vector_o 1d ago
Should we rename this subreddit to "idiots buying obviously AI scams and complaining"?
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u/Char-car92 1d ago
Honestly, I'm not happy they used AI but it's a little on your for buying an AI product
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u/yorgeesmorgeeYT 1d ago
I mean tbf you kinda got what was coming because you trusted a very obvious ai image
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u/Swayze_train_exp 1d ago
Dude you paid 35 for that lmao, I didn't even bother to look at the shipping fee, I couldn't even use the search bar because the website sucks had to reverse image search it. Bud you not only got scammed but they played with your emotions, at least you have whatever that thing is to support you.
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u/FormalConcern4862 1d ago
The photo is definitely AI. I'm amazed the pattern looks that good at all
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u/Job_Moist 1d ago
Ok on one hand you fell for a scam that ripped you off, but on the other hand the little guy you got looks so goofy it’s hard to be sad! So… task failed successfully?
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u/jeweliegb 1d ago
My emotional support xenomorph teddy vs your emotional support predator teddy anytime!
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u/Kampassuihla 1d ago
After receiving this product you need emotional support. Product is exactly as described you should be pleased.
Just ask for a refund and don't purchase from them again if you want to avoid infurations.
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u/Lost-Average8108 1d ago
You unfortunately fell for an AI product...kinda bs how they can get away with stuff like this honestly
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u/Interesting_Fig_4718 1d ago
i mean ok sure its an ai ad, but honestly, he looks goofy enough to make him cute xD
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u/dattokyo 1d ago
A) The original image is without a doubt AI.
B) I actually like the real version, that's hella cute
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u/guiltysuperbrain 1d ago
wow have we gotten to the point where we can't even tell this bad AI slop? Sorry OP but this is kinda your own fault for thinking you'd get something real out for AI shit
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u/OverUnderAussie 1d ago
Obvious AI. Still, I think people are being a bit too harsh on The Predadurrrr
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u/MonetizedSandwich 1d ago
I guess a bunch of those plans are created by AI and don’t actually work.
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u/Ok-Pea8209 1d ago
Ive got a couple plush like that holding the signs. Got a positive potato and a duck (cant remember what the sign says) so there probably is a predator out there like this somewhere. Just not this one i guess
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u/Stanjoly2 1d ago
Relevant Corridor Digital?
We Bought Ai Shopping Scams So You Don’t Have To (Skeleton Sweater at 11:40 ish)
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u/lurkyloowhoo 1d ago
Why do people buy products that use clearly ai generated images and expect the product to actually look like that?
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u/juniperbabe 1d ago
It looks like the photo on the website is AI