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

I'm selling this sunflower seed. !!! Only 50 sun !!!

Ah! An AI use case.

Those flowers are sending off some form of primitive flight or fight response in my brain. Their appearance is unnatural and unsettling.

Back in my day you got ripped off buying seeds from scammers good at Photoshop.

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.

Don’t buy seeds on Amazon, eBay, Etsy, etc - they are so full of scammers that it is impossible to weed out the legitimate sellers from the fake. And if you get fake ones, you may get invasive species that are harmful to the environment around you.

Most places have some great local sellers. But if you’re buying online I would recommend dedicated places like Canada’s Vesey’s Seeds, West Coast Seeds, or the US’s Prairie Moon

Yet another reason to plant seeds of species that are native to your region, and purchase them from reputable sources

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.

Even before AI, this was a scam. Photoshopped pics. Fake seeds for legit plants, like wasabi, that are harder to find. And so on.

If someone needs to use generative AI to market a product, then that product doesn't exist.

They look like boobs

Dr Seuss ahh flowers

"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.

These free-for-all marketplaces are just going to suffocate under a barrage of scams. Ebay is already the world's biggest stolen goods fence.

@Some_Emo_Chick Scammers are gonna find any way possible to scam. Using AI isn't surprising one bit, tbh.

Atomic Shrimp did a really good video on the topic

funny how its mostly flowers that are either sunflowers, or daisies, are moslty in the asteracae family, not any other. succulents are mostly propagated by cuttings, or offshoots, rather than seeds because succulent from seeds takes a very long time to grow.

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.

Also accurate, if cold, shadenfreude title:
A fool and their money are soon parted

Oh hell no, let this scam live. The more people that get fucked over by AI, the more chance we'll have of making the fucking point.

If you fall for these half-assed AI photos, you probably deserve to be scammed.

Looks like Dr Seuss has a green thumb

If they don’t exist how can they be exotic