• VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca
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        1 hour ago

        Are you saying that the thing that is only good at lying and creating fake images/videos is good at scamming ? I am shocked !

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      6 hours ago

      This can’t be AI. AI only creates forgeries of existing art! It’s incapable of creating anything new; I have it on good authority. Plus we’d know if AI had been used because all the water would be gone, the art stolen, and electricity would become unaffordable everywhere.

      I’ve never used it and never will.

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    8 hours ago

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

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    12 hours ago

    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

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    9 hours ago

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

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      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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      It’s not really stupidity. Just think about stuff that you may buy without having the expertise to really judge the quality or if it is even possible. You might think that people are stupid when they do not know every plant. But do you know every tool, every tech gadget, every type of clothing and so on?

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

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        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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          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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          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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    11 hours ago

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

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      10 hours ago

      I don’t think the product actually existing is something scammers are typically concerned about

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      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).

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    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.

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    9 hours ago

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

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    10 hours ago

    “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.