- The_v@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
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.
2 hoursBack in my day you got ripped off buying seeds from scammers good at Photoshop.
- 3 hours
At some level of stupidity, I think we should let the scammer win.
like, that’s just a stupid tax, they deserve to be scammed.
- 2 hours
Honestly there’s so many weird flowers out there it can be hard to tell truth from fiction. Yeah these are AI generated, but look at all the other flowers that are real:
- Lambs ear
- Sea holly
- Teddy Bear sunflowers are real even
- Protea “Little Prince”
- Hoya Multiflora
Lots of very interesting flowers out there.
- Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyzEnglish1 hour
When your mother starts buying this shit and spending big $$$ on stupid scams, you’ll want them stopped.
- 17 minutes
If I go to someone and offer them a shoe box full of gold for 100$, no I wont open the box, and they agree, then I don’t think that is a scam and more that said person is too stupid to be in public.
If that was the case and my mother’s mind is so degraded then it is absolutely dangerous and irresponsible for me to let her live alone.
- FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish12 minutes
If I go to someone and offer them a shoe box full of gold for 100$, no I wont open the box, and they agree, then I don’t think that is a scam and more that said person is too stupid to be in public.
This is exactly the mindset of a scammer, ‘well, if they’re so stupid that they let me scam them then they deserve it’.
Used to buy succulent seeds online, and sadly there were a fair number of scammers selling seeds for what appeared to be gorgeous, but non-existent photoshopped succulents.
Scammers gotta scam, and AI makes it easy.
- cmbabul@slrpnk.netEnglish5 hours
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.socialEnglish2 hours
I think it depends who you target. For example “Freedom water” is great because it’s just targeting MAGA dumbasses.
- Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish3 hours
Even before AI, this was a scam. Photoshopped pics. Fake seeds for legit plants, like wasabi, that are harder to find. And so on.
Also accurate, if cold, shadenfreude title:
A fool and their money are soon parted- crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish5 hours
If someone needs to use generative AI to market a product, then that product doesn’t exist.
I test products for a major online retailer, the amount of AI generated images is too damn high! Some of these producs are so bad I just give them away once the retention period (when you cannot sell or give them) is up. But sometimes you get some pretty good surprises (like those electric insect bite healer devices, that works surprising well).
- 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
I don’t think the product actually existing is something scammers are typically concerned about
- crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish2 hours
But it’s a good rule of thumb for consumers. or at least for us to tell our parents.
“Ah, yes… a 2m tall flower would look great next to my Day of the Triffids merch! Oh, and a starz-n-stripes container plant would be ideal for my shouty, flag-waving neighbour… Take my money!”
We are so doomed as a society.
