AI is going nuts w/ online shop fakes - WTH is this? WHY??

[Gepi]

Hi forum,
just wanted to leave this absolutely insanely detailed, but apparently completely fake online shop for seeds here:

https://www.plantonto.com/products/cat-face-flower-seeds

Flowers that look like cat heads - how cute. And how completely fake.

I came across this because I was searching for pictures of cat's heads for a current design project.

WTH? Everything on there is not real. The pictures, the description, the reviews, the numbers, the shop - everything.

Can someone explain to me, why go to these lengths? Is it really just to grab peoples money via credit card/Paypal fraud?
But then this site should disappear pretty quickly, right?
Or is it that easy to generate an online shop nowadays with AI, with hundreds of items? Set up shop,
grab some quick cash from some unsuspecting grannies ordering nice flowers online for the first time, then
make it dissapear and just create the next?

I am baffled.

What are your thoughts on this?

Any other similar examples?

 

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[MaxT]

Ahah, thanks for sharing. I think we are just at the beginning of a new era of scam with ai.
But with photos like that... who will buy the seeds ? Really ahah.
Except some people who took too much lsd possibly ^^

 

[JayODC]

I can see why it grabbed your attention - may seems foolish at first, but it's a sign of what is to come.

How we use the internet and what are verifiable sources of truth may be on the cusp of changing as we know it.

Best for us to anticipate these changes and adapt accordingly.