“Gifts from companies that used Al to make them look much better than reality did are already appearing in thrift shops post-Christmas.
These “Al slop gifts” arrived sometimes barely resembling what was in the Al-generated ad, and recipients apparently wasted no time dropping them off at Goodwill.
Al gifts were a huge issue this year, fooling older generations in droves.”
I’d much rather call this “false advertisement by AI” or something like that, since it’s not the gifts themselves that are AI, but that’s just semantics I guess. It’s shitty either way and I hate it. :D
I felt so bad because our mom got these AI prints made of all of our dogs doing silly things this year. Like her heart was in the right place but holy shit please don’t. Right into the storage unit as a “memento” of 2025 I guess.
Scammers are making bank off the shitty theft machines that’s for sure
I got an AI slop book for Christmas this year. I checked Amazon and someone spent $10 on this piece of shit. Cant help but feel like this is going to be more and more common very soon where buying anything has a high chance of just being a completely POS fake product.
Yes, this is the one my friend’s mom fell for. They were supposed to be these gorgeous mugs made out of crystals for $50 each. They were complete trash 3D printed plastic.
I think I saw somewhere recently that microplastics in the brain are a factor in increasing cases of alzheimers. This seems like it’s gonna become a feedback loop.
“Gifts from companies that used Al to make them look much better than reality did are already appearing in thrift shops post-Christmas.
These “Al slop gifts” arrived sometimes barely resembling what was in the Al-generated ad, and recipients apparently wasted no time dropping them off at Goodwill.
Al gifts were a huge issue this year, fooling older generations in droves.”
I’d much rather call this “false advertisement by AI” or something like that, since it’s not the gifts themselves that are AI, but that’s just semantics I guess. It’s shitty either way and I hate it. :D
Yeah that makes it way clearer. I didn’t know if it meant it was designed by AI or what
Maybe they take the AI generated picture and give it to the AI design program and say design a real thing that looks like this.
That’s a really good point.
I felt so bad because our mom got these AI prints made of all of our dogs doing silly things this year. Like her heart was in the right place but holy shit please don’t. Right into the storage unit as a “memento” of 2025 I guess.
Scammers are making bank off the shitty theft machines that’s for sure
I got an AI slop book for Christmas this year. I checked Amazon and someone spent $10 on this piece of shit. Cant help but feel like this is going to be more and more common very soon where buying anything has a high chance of just being a completely POS fake product.
Somebody I know got a t-shirt with the ad photo of the t-shirt printed on the back, if that makes sense.
I know people who had this happen last Christmas too. Mugs that were supposed to be made out of (or at least look like) quartz geodes.
Yes, this is the one my friend’s mom fell for. They were supposed to be these gorgeous mugs made out of crystals for $50 each. They were complete trash 3D printed plastic.
I think I saw somewhere recently that microplastics in the brain are a factor in increasing cases of alzheimers. This seems like it’s gonna become a feedback loop.