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Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

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Re: Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

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We talk too much about hallucination and too little about the more mundane elephant in the room that AI, whatever its effectiveness, will simply be used more for scam and deception than positive uses.

I dont think a few scams here and there outweight positive usecases

I don't think a few stock photo replacements here and there outweigh the negative use-cases.

Re: Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont think a few scams here and there outweight positive usecases

We're about to see our political campaigns flooded with fake videos, slander, fabrications, and misinformation. Used to be you could be relatively certain if something was a video it was too much effort to be photoshopped. Not true any more.

Maybe it will make ppl to be skeptic?

Re: Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're about to see our political campaigns flooded with fake videos, slander, fabrications, and misinformation. Used to be you could be relatively certain if something was a video it was too much effort to be photoshopped. Not true any more.

Maybe it will make ppl to be skeptic?

I take it you haven't met people.

Re: Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

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post #3

We talk too much about hallucination and too little about the more mundane elephant in the room that AI, whatever its effectiveness, will simply be used more for scam and deception than positive uses.

I find it fascinating that this is a popular anti-bitcoin argument, but (often) the same people making that argument actually find AI useful. So they experience a mild case of cognitive dissonance.

Re: Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

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post #15

This should inform entrepreneurs: people want unique and beautiful flowers. I don’t see why it’s not possible to do at least some modifications with gene editing methods.

What the world needs is more new and innovative invasive species that were cooked up in a lab to look cool :)

Re: Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're about to see our political campaigns flooded with fake videos, slander, fabrications, and misinformation. Used to be you could be relatively certain if something was a video it was too much effort to be photoshopped. Not true any more.

Maybe it will make ppl to be skeptic?

I’m curious as to both of your media markets, because my perception is that this is already the mainstream.

AI generated political ads are something I see multiple times per day. Not even just shadow actors on social media, but also TV ads from registered lobbying groups

And comment sections of the social media I consume are filled with “AI!” on any post about a politically sensitive topic even from reputable sources.

Re: Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

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post #17

Image generators should embed their prompts, and eBay should run a slop detector.

I believe grok embeds some modern standard provenance metadata (haven't checked what data it contains though), and Google uses their own invisible watermarking (that unfortunately only google can detect...).
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