Scammers Sold Fake AI Flower Seeds 37,271 Times on eBay Before Anyone Pulled the Listing
AI-generated images sell seeds for plants that do not exist, with one fake rose listing bought 37,271 times on eBay before the seller was banned.
Scammers are flooding eBay, Amazon, and Etsy with seeds for plants that do not exist, advertised with lurid AI-generated images of rainbow leaves and blooms shaped like cats and butterflies. One fake AI rose listing sold 37,271 times on eBay before the seller finally got banned, and buyers who paid up get sawdust, weeds, or nothing, while risking the introduction of invasive species. Three of the biggest retailers on earth cannot stop a con whose entire toolkit is a free image generator and a padded envelope. 404 Media on the seed scams
Source: 404 Media, Emanuel Maiberg · Emanuel Maiberg
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