Holy shit, I could be making bank off the kinds of morons who reflexively buy "God Bless America" products.

Well at least they're honest about it...

bunk
/bʌŋk/
noun
nonsense.
"anyone with a brain cell would never believe such bunk"

I've been seeing a LOT of AI slop garden flags and a couple of holiday banners on garage doors. The most egregious of the latter was large enough to cover a 2 car garage door and featured an anthropomorphic scarecrow bending forward while holding onto it's upper thighs. Both obviously slop due to the muddled cartoony nature and weirdly provocative.

Worse was going to a Christmas craft fair and seeing multiple vendors selling such slop. Nightmare Before Christmas flags that had a mostly consistent Jack, but the various Sally depictions ranged from mostly accurate to generic pretty goth girl that was vaguely made up to look like her.

AI slop for plastic slop.

Both way overpriced.

Both super bad for the environment (a third of microplastics in circulation comes from plastic/plastics in clothing & such).

You could probably cut them up and sew the pieces to make Apple phone sleeves. Then undercut Apple by selling them for only about a hunnert bucks or so.

Super soft and fuzzy for their super thin skin

Im tired boss

So even though they didn't pay an artist or license an image, they still had to print/make the blanket, distribute it via truck... it's not gonna be free, or (much) less expensive than one that doesn't use AI slop for the art.

A company that makes these and licenses them may pay less for, say, KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix) than they would for, say, Zootopia 2 (Disney), and they'd pay even less for AI slop (nothing). But they're going to normalise the prices and sell all of them at the same price. Even if the first two were all they sell, they're not gonna sell the Zootopia one for $5 more than the KPop Demon Hunters one because Disney charges more to license IP than Netflix does. They will sell for the same price. And because the Disney one will sell more, that's what they're going to lean more towards, and the Netflix one with the cheaper licensing will be more profit.

I've paid $30-40 for licensed blankets. My wife and I have blankets with licensed art from Fallout (game series), The Promised Neverland, and Tokyo Ghoul (both anime and manga series). They make more profit from AI stuff, but even before AI, they'd just license stock art for far less than they'd pay to use art from a commercial IP. Like a galaxy, or a psychedelic pattern. Not AI slop, but not something they had to pay much for, if anything.

Are we sure it's AI slop? The picture doesn't have obvious errors.

Bunk is the size, which translates to 60x80.

If it were 50x60 would be a throw, which is the more common fleece size.

I'd still never buy this garbage, but I think it's cheap Chinese garbage instead of AI garbage.