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Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don’t Exist (www.404media.co)
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[–] TheBannedLemming@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Those flowers are sending off some form of primitive flight or fight response in my brain. Their appearance is unnatural and unsettling.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

To be fair some real flowers look very weird, but those fake ones look like muppets.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Do you want Little Shop of Horrors? Because this is how you get Little Shop of Horrors!