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AI slop mugs hitting the thrift store shelves (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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[–] [S] 64 points 10 months ago (10 children)

“Gifts from companies that used Al to make them look much better than reality did are already appearing in thrift shops post-Christmas.

These "Al slop gifts" arrived sometimes barely resembling what was in the Al-generated ad, and recipients apparently wasted no time dropping them off at Goodwill.

Al gifts were a huge issue this year, fooling older generations in droves.”

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  • [–] 85 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I'd much rather call this "false advertisement by AI" or something like that, since it's not the gifts themselves that are AI, but that's just semantics I guess. It's shitty either way and I hate it. :D

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago*

    I felt so bad because our mom got these AI prints made of all of our dogs doing silly things this year. Like her heart was in the right place but holy shit please don't. Right into the storage unit as a "memento" of 2025 I guess.

    Scammers are making bank off the shitty theft machines that's for sure

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    I got an AI slop book for Christmas this year. I checked Amazon and someone spent $10 on this piece of shit. Cant help but feel like this is going to be more and more common very soon where buying anything has a high chance of just being a completely POS fake product.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I know people who had this happen last Christmas too. Mugs that were supposed to be made out of (or at least look like) quartz geodes.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, this is the one my friend’s mom fell for. They were supposed to be these gorgeous mugs made out of crystals for $50 each. They were complete trash 3D printed plastic.

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