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Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don’t Exist (www.404media.co)
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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (13 children)

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.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    When your mother starts buying this shit and spending big $$$ on stupid scams, you'll want them stopped.

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  • [+] -9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    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'.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Ok, but what if you slide the scale a little more and you do open the box, but it’s just gold colored stones. Slide a little more and it’s gold plated so even a surface scratch test shows gold. Keep going more and some of the stones are actual gold, but others aren’t.

    See the problem? How much due diligence and expertise do you expect people to have before making any purchase?

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    my point is that if you have absolutely zero due diligence. then it's sort of your fault.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The way I view it is that fraud is a crime, but we also have an ethical obligation not to let ourselves be marks. Same goes for lots of other crimes. Legal penalties are one deterrent. Raising the barrier to entry for a criminal activity by being a hard target is another. Both are good. But there will always be gullible, vulnerable people, and saying that they're fair game is much too close to eugenics. Healthy societies protect the vulnerable, but also train people to be less vulnerable when that's possible.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    No lmao these things are being sold on ETSY and Amazon and a bunch of businesses that need to protect their market participants lmfaoooo. the responsibility is on who ever is hosting these scams, I report them all the time.

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