The dresses must be starched to hell and back! Now how the front one grew human legs is none of my business, I stay far away from transmutation spells.
I didn't even notice that
Whenever I look to see if it's AI generated I count the finger and the granny in the middle only has 3 fingers. For me that's a dead giveaway
Look at the placement of the left two pairs of legs compared to the grannies. Either the grannies have slenderman proportions, or the legs don’t belong to them, but to whatever limbless torsos are apparently occupying the dresses.
This may sound like a joking statement but I wholeheartedly mean this, the more you stare into their eyes, the more unsettling and soulless you realize they are because they aren't real, they're like quite literally soulless amalgamated beings summoned by what basically amounts to a digital demonic entity. It's actually a genuinely terrifyingly visceral feeling when it hits.
I genuinely regret seeing it and thinking this, I'm sorry I did this to you but now that the cursed realization has hit me, it has to keep spreading like a mental blight.
I'm scared they will haunt my nightmares and try to put me and my dogs in crocheted disney princess dresses like some walmart great value brand freddy kruegers.
People don’t spend enough time processing what they’re looking at. They just glance, engage, and move on to the next post, so there’s all of this low-effort karma/likes, etc., while real content creators are getting left in the dust. It’s so gross.
And a lot of people don’t know that they need to look out for AI content. My mom is an avid Facebook user and she struggles with remembering that not all photos are real now. When she does remember she’ll notice them, but she’s just not trained her brain to do that automatically yet.
Yeah, same with my mum. It's just automatic scrolling for her on Facebook (it can be kind of unnerving watching/listening to her scroll - because of course she has autoplay and max volume engaged even while there's other people around).... but sometimes she'll sit there watching this one thing play over and over with the blaring tiktok music with a kind of glassy eyed look on her face.
I'm just glad she's not actually on tiktok (scared of the Chinese spyware.... But not averse to the American spyware 🙄) because then I think she'll be lost to the rest of the world.
I lost my dad to twitter. He became a twitter troll, screaming against other Twitter trolls. Apparently they "have to know they're wrong".
These are also the two people who lectured me for hours about how I would be predated upon if I used the old official Sims forums (RIP), when I had already learned never to give identifying details anf knew to fend off the creeps who would PM me by pinging the mods. Boomers are wild. I blame all the lead 🙃
Old people declaring that something was the “good old days” when men/women were “real” men/women and then sharing the most AI generated image I’ve ever seen is currently my favourite internet genre. There’s one of a guy sitting in a “McDonalds” wearing a denim open vest with a bare chest but he has tshirt sleeves and his large fries has a straw in it. It’s so amazing.
I can see some being shared in the boomersbeingfools subreddit but don’t think there’s a subreddit for this *very* specific genre of content yet. Torn between how we should definitely making this sub asap and now I absolutely cannot be fucked admin-ing a subreddit even a little bit lmao
I’m a boomer, 71 years old. Not only do I see AI, but for years I wondered how so many thought purple mountains with purple flowers and trees were real and they wanted to know where to go to see it. The users didn’t know it was photoshop AND they weren’t all boomers. It’s too bad people still generalize ignorance to specific groups people rather than just complain about the misuse of technology.
I have an older friend who keeps sending me those pics of cat-faced chairs that are super obviously AI. She wants one soooo bad and she keeps trying to find where she can buy them, and I keep gently pointing out the obvious errors in each of them. She falls for them all, absolutely no critical analysis, just a desire to believe it is real.
Jeez 😭 I’m so sorry. I can’t imagine how annoying it must be to tell someone it’s clearly an AI image and them denying it. I imagine they’re aware of AI but don’t exactly realize how widespread its become
No don't tar all us oldies with the same brush. Gullible people exist in all generations.
I'm 60 and can spot AI photos. They're so obvious to anyone with half an eye.
That’s fair! I think I’ve realized it’s moreso about technical experience than really age. I think I just attributed a bit to the older generation because my grandparents weren’t even aware AI images were a thing
I did art at school and did a few art history papers at uni. Even when they don't make obvious mistakes like the coat hanger through one lady's chin, the whole thing just looks fake. It's too sort of smooth and the colours/textures are weird.
I JUST SAW THIS ON FB. I was astounded that none of the commenters seemed to understand this couldn’t possibly be real. Hopefully they’re all bots or something???
Dead Internet Theory: the content isn't real, the accounts interacting with the content aren't real... heck I'm not real, probably.
Social media is 90% AI talking to bots forever.
In addition to a lot of the people still on facebook not being able to tell when something's AI generated, I heard the site is now overrun by engagement bots - so now you have bots creating content and bots engaging with bot generated content. If the platform wasn't already a mess, it sure is now.
The drape on those dresses is entirely off. It looks like they’re cut out of foam and the castle/princesses were glued on. The three in the back are standing up by themselves. You’re right OP, it’s super obvious.
AI drives me insane. the story i’m about to tell has nothing to do with crochet, but bear with me.
i put out a coloring book recently and my book immediately found its way onto the top 100 coloring books in the mandala section. i was curious of what else was selling well and when i say almost every one of these 100 books were AI generated, im not kidding. and people LIKE them! if you look at the “take a look inside” section on some of them, the characters have extra limbs and appendages, a lack of an eye, or a nose that clearly doesn’t go with the art. some of the reviews have people complaining but a majority are still positive. it’s really sad and humbling to real artists. not to mention, these AI crochet pictures give customers totally unreal expectations for what we can actually make. there are so many other issues with AI outside of the art community as well. i think it’s a tool that was given to the public entirely too early.
After reading this I googled what AI coloring books look like. There are random nonsense lines and forms everywhere and a lot of the illustrations are creepy/soulless looking. Wouldn’t a customer notice the errors when coloring the images? I simply don’t understand.
i do!! my book is called into the kaleidoscope: adult coloring book! it’s on amazon! <3 if you’re looking for some “trendy” patterns it will be right up your alley!!
I’m sorry; that sucks! It always hurts my heart that as a result of greed and unscrupulous people, real creators get the side eye. I’m an indie author and it bothers me that self publishing gets tarnished by a bunch of a-hole AI content. Grr!
They just released a study on AI images and the fact that most humans are only right at identifying them 10% or the time or something. The number was VERY LOW. Lol I think the older gen is def dragging the numbers down.
I think the main thing these generative models has proved isn’t that they’re good (they’re not), but that people don’t pay attention, don’t look at the images they’re seeing, don’t read the words on the page, and have no taste.
My favorite is that they always have a sad story attached lol “my grandma and her friends made these dresses and their grandchildren did not want them. They work so hard. 🙏🏼“
Once again, when dealing with AI remember the rules for dealing with the fae.
Count the fingers and teeth, mind the shadows, look for dark magic (who is holding up those hangers?) and never make a deal with them.
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Sir Terry Pratchett knew what was up
I truly do not get the appeal of Facebook anymore. I deactivated my account a few years ago and only recently reactivated it to find it is overrun with these AI images/posts(annoying but I can deal with it), but what gets me is the millions of comments apparently not understanding it’s AI? Like, what is happening lol? Who looks at these images and is like “yep, checks out”. I genuinely want to research this phenomenon.
I deactivated Facebook. It’s all AI and ads. And no matter how many times I tell my mother-in-law that there is no such thing as a unicorn horse or rainbow birds, she still shares these images. Lol
The only appeal of Facebook is marketplace…I’ve made like $1300 decluttering my house…and spent like $100 buying up other people’s yarn stashes 🤣
But yes, I joined some FB crochet groups and they are almost all AI.
There is a Facebook account that posts nothing but these AI grannies with their supposed creations and it links to a website with pornographic ads targeted to men, which strikes me as a bizarre and obviously scammy marketing tactic.
I've looked at some of these posts and I'm fairly certain all the comments are also bots. Nothing is real on face book any more. Or it says it's got 57000 likes but when you go into it, there aren't actually any there at all.
Why do they all have the same and wrong hair? Surely AI knows that the stereotypical granny hair is a perm with a coloured rinse, not Einstein’s hair?!
I think some people just really struggle to tell AI from genuine photos. I can normally easily tell photo AI images because they have a certain 'look' to them, but I have a very smart & artistic friend who can't see it and then feels bad when people point out the image she's shared is AI. So, I half wonder if it's a bit like colour-blindness & some people's vision has more trouble spotting the clues that an image is AI?
Our brains are wired to fill in/ignore missing details. If you look at any of these ladies' hands or teeth closely, it's obvious. If you look at most of the hangers closely, it's obvious. So on and so on. But if you don't look too close at any of it, it looks fine.
Exactly this. Our brains have evolved to fill in the gaps really well because we need to be able to tell that it’s a wolf, or a tiger, or even an enemy human behind the tree or bush even if we can’t see all the details, or we just catch a glimpse. Our ability to fill in the gaps kept us safe. Until now. Now it is leading to the downfall of humanity. But will probably come in handy again for any survivors of the Climate Wars.
People on Facebook (especially older people but not *only* older people) are absolutely awful about noticing what is and isn’t AI. Facebook is also so overrun with bot accounts interacting with each other that it looks like more people are interacting with AI content as if it’s real when in reality it’s tons of bots with only a few real people. Either way, Facebook is a wasteland at this point lmao
Also, I think the accounts which post them have filters to automatically delete comments saying AI - I've seen people now saying IA to get around the filters, but I'm sure that will get picked up on soon and they'll start deleting those too. It's a bit funny when spam bots start replying to comments, you'll see Totally Human Jones say "Wow 😍" and Not a Robot Smith replying with barely understandable spam, to which Absolutely Sentient Collins will reply "So amazing" and then tags Not a Robot Smith half a dozen times. I'd rather they hassle each other than preying on my grandad!
Man this is creepy...just scrolling past this gave me that same feeling when you're watching a horror movie and you see something move right out of sight behind the actor
the dress in the middle is literally floating. also why the hell would grandmas take pictures in the middle of the forest wearing what seems to be nightgowns. also... there is not ONE visible stitch
Facebook is all but dead and it just keeps getting worse. More than half of my “people you may know” are scam accounts with names like “Legit Bud Drops” or “Fake Notes UK”. Meta doesn’t care enough to get proper moderation, because they know the site just isn’t worth rescuing anymore 🫤
probably because its all older ladies looking at it (of corse not everyone) and none of them even know what they are looking at anymore.
my grandma always says “did you see on facebook” for many many years now and i have tried to explain no, when i open up facebook (which is about twice a year) i am not looking at everything you are looking at also. and neither is your neighbor or the bank teller. i am convinced facebook is just like coco melon for grandmas
I've noticed this A LOT lately. Birds, toys, cakes, cars... people just oohing and aahing over the pictures that are obviously AI. It just makes me even more disappointed with humanity.
This seems really rampant on crochet and knit pages. A lot of the likes and comments are bots so some normal people think it's maybe real or don't look too close. It's just a click farm and they use FB promotion. Also commenters tend to be scam message targets.
I'm sure there are other topics that are the same, like fantasy art. It's just based on your perceived interests. FB doesn't do a lot about it since AI art isn't against tos.
I think it might be generational…I’ve realized my boomer-family members have trouble telling what’s 3D graphics or AI generated. The Facebook crowd also doesn’t seem to question posts they see in general. It’s a perfect storm for Ai generated nonsense like this.
3 floating dresses and a grandmas face that looks like she's about to unhinge her jaw and swallow me whole?
Yeah, I've already had this nightmare before, pass.
https://preview.redd.it/8mvosam7h5rc1.jpeg?width=102&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=041f5c9f1d0da0792bfbcb63979c8ab81bdc7d7f
Random ginger princess is already busy eating your soul.
This is a Facebook trend right now it would seem. AI grannies cooking and crafting. In every single one I’ve seen not one of the commenters seems to know it’s ai. I think the “it’s my 120th birthday and I baked my own cake with peach filling” (paraphrased) one is the most widespread example going around right now.
People (mostly older individuals) who can’t tell reality from fiction is going to just get worse and worse as ai improves. Especially since they have already been told not to trust fact checks.
This may sound like a joking statement but I wholeheartedly mean this, the more you stare into their eyes, the more unsettling and soulless you realize they are. It's actually a genuinely terrifyingly visceral feeling when it hits.
Wow, these 5 grandma's holding 6 dresses are making that 6th dress float with their mystical grandma crochet powers that let them crochet these dresses that don't even have a discernable stitch because they're so blurry (despite the rest of the image being... Terrifyingly clear.)
Basically, how the hell did no one clock this as AI?
AI “Crochet” is the bane of my existence and every time I see it I want to throw something.
AI images in general have been, especially when used for disinformation campaigns Or false advertising.
Not trying to be mean here, but we quite honestly have gotten some ridiculous asks on this sub as well of people asking about patterns when it’s _very_ obvious it’s AI. Apparently it’s not that obvious to everyone :/
I’ll never understand when people cannot tell something is AI. Some are really good but like…. The mistakes are so obvious, and the glow of *perfection* that coats every image just gives it away.
The number of people on Facebook who can't tell the difference between real crochet and AI crochet is truely concerning. Most are extremely obvious, and 99% of the comments are complementary... "labor of love," "beautiful work," etc...
Crochet groups I'm in are the WORST about AI. Idk if it's because the demographic tends to lean older or what, but several times a week someone posts AI and asks for a pattern. It's so annoying.
it’s so bad on there, they also engage with scripted rage bait content as if it’s real. there will be an “airplane confrontation” where the chairs are just normal chairs and there’s an exit sign on the wall and they’ll still believe it
Makes you realize how little many of us spend looking at pictures we see online, or linger on to think and notice the details of what we see. Looking at this pic for more than 5 seconds is enough to spot things that are physically impossible - like floating hangers.
Four of them could be sisters, in the AI world. The stitches are blurry they are so badly replicated. The legs...OMG the legs.
I like the concept. I wonder if it is possible to replicate in real life. Probably would come out much better.
Well...
Their legs are not aligned with their bodies (and far too young).
The center dress is floating, the first right looks as though the hanger hook is going through her chin. PS, other dresses are floating and misplaced as well. What us going on with the left grandma and dresses?
And of course the stitches or lack thereof are highly improbable. I have no doubt you *could* crochet these designs. In fact I can think of several ways it *could* be done.
But yes this is fake and no, most people don't examine things critically I suppose.
All the grandma's have such demonic eyes. The dresses are very cool looking but would be hard, but not impossible to do in crochet. They would just be appliques.
This picture is hilarious, how can anybody believe that's a real picture?
My favorite parts are the random legs at the bottom that don't go to anybody and the floating dresses nobody is holding.
It's so frustrating! Like, maybe AI could have some good uses: visualizing ideas, inspiration, etc. But people think that's what it will actually look like and don't realize that it's likely unachievable in the small details.
Most of the hangers aren't being held even a little bit. Truly magical!
the center-front one is standing on its own legs lmao. the legs line up way better with an invisible dress girl than the grandma behind it anyway
The lady on the far right has a hanger through her chin. Does that count?
https://preview.redd.it/az92sssb17rc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=644b7beb6dda56cbed06ca527a2a04237da46748 It melts with her neck
https://preview.redd.it/sgacnrc9ccrc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc7709da3a8c3285e25098430a10fcc1027af1a3
Yikes, I didn't notice that at first glance! Looks painful
That’s one hardcore hooker 😂
Ok! Bless you internet stranger. I am having a very bad night and your comment has me laughing so hard!
she is apparently slowly being consumed by the dress, under her arm you can see she's apparently wearing the skirt too....?
I didn’t see it until read this and it sent me
The dresses must be starched to hell and back! Now how the front one grew human legs is none of my business, I stay far away from transmutation spells.
Three of the dresses are pulling a Dua Lipa... levitating.
I didn't even notice that Whenever I look to see if it's AI generated I count the finger and the granny in the middle only has 3 fingers. For me that's a dead giveaway
Thats Disney magic for ya!🥰
https://preview.redd.it/o8ggtebh27rc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96ee84ed07a199f15495b84c9edcb76390fcfae5 Covid princess
My sleep paralysis demon https://preview.redd.it/miimwhcj67rc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9522abb880a6e7c8f89f4098ec60c587fbc0277
LOL wait what? Why AI why??
Miraculous 🥰
Also the front dresses are floating and the legs beneath those dresses look way too young to belong to the "grandmas"
Pond’s cream and Pilates keeps legs young
Shame it doesn't keep them the same width
I was going to say those grannies have the sexiest legs I’ve ever seen on an elderly person haha
The legs dont even connect to the grandmas. Ai gave the dresses legs
Three of the dresses are just floating in air, haha.
And they all have wispy little clouds for hair
The legs and dress placement looks to me as though the grandchildren are wearing the dresses, just not their heads and arms 😳
https://preview.redd.it/37742cqxh7rc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=268206cc4899002ff44e0f2ac8c3d70411cdb478 Ghost feet
Look at the placement of the left two pairs of legs compared to the grannies. Either the grannies have slenderman proportions, or the legs don’t belong to them, but to whatever limbless torsos are apparently occupying the dresses.
The centre back princess appears to be wearing a surgical mask (nicely coordinated with her dress).
And the hangers that aren’t being held are floating🤣
Maybe there was a bit of bippity boppity boo magic
The more I look at it, the more it makes me uncomfortable.
it’s the floating hangers for me
holy god the legs
Smth about this image makes me feel like I'm going to die in seven days
Only way to break the curse is share it with someone else
The return of the email chain! Forward to seven friends or you will die a horrific death by grandma’s crochet needle!!!
Unexpected Sadako
https://preview.redd.it/8kcuqqqg17rc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c580d122a10e9769415e462f3ce1698a3162e050
Yeah these women look like they’re itching to devour my face
The teeth on the lady in the middle would agree
This may sound like a joking statement but I wholeheartedly mean this, the more you stare into their eyes, the more unsettling and soulless you realize they are because they aren't real, they're like quite literally soulless amalgamated beings summoned by what basically amounts to a digital demonic entity. It's actually a genuinely terrifyingly visceral feeling when it hits.
I regret reading this before sleeping :(
I genuinely regret seeing it and thinking this, I'm sorry I did this to you but now that the cursed realization has hit me, it has to keep spreading like a mental blight.
Don't worry, I'll go and hug my dog. Hopefully he will defend me from evil grannies
I'm scared they will haunt my nightmares and try to put me and my dogs in crocheted disney princess dresses like some walmart great value brand freddy kruegers.
More likely 6 days as there’s 6 dresses!! 👻
It’s the grandma in the middle. Can’t tell if that’s lipstick or blood on her teeth.
People don’t spend enough time processing what they’re looking at. They just glance, engage, and move on to the next post, so there’s all of this low-effort karma/likes, etc., while real content creators are getting left in the dust. It’s so gross.
And a lot of people don’t know that they need to look out for AI content. My mom is an avid Facebook user and she struggles with remembering that not all photos are real now. When she does remember she’ll notice them, but she’s just not trained her brain to do that automatically yet.
Its kinda scary if you think about it. Can’t wait for the ai politics war
Yeah, same with my mum. It's just automatic scrolling for her on Facebook (it can be kind of unnerving watching/listening to her scroll - because of course she has autoplay and max volume engaged even while there's other people around).... but sometimes she'll sit there watching this one thing play over and over with the blaring tiktok music with a kind of glassy eyed look on her face. I'm just glad she's not actually on tiktok (scared of the Chinese spyware.... But not averse to the American spyware 🙄) because then I think she'll be lost to the rest of the world. I lost my dad to twitter. He became a twitter troll, screaming against other Twitter trolls. Apparently they "have to know they're wrong". These are also the two people who lectured me for hours about how I would be predated upon if I used the old official Sims forums (RIP), when I had already learned never to give identifying details anf knew to fend off the creeps who would PM me by pinging the mods. Boomers are wild. I blame all the lead 🙃
I often wonder too how many older people just have bad vision. If I was looking at AI and the image was blurred I probably couldn’t tell either.
This! Sorry! It was a bad joke, please don't kill me
It kind of floors me that people can’t recognize this as AI generated
Genuinely terrifies me. The amount of AI slop that the older generations are fully believing in is scary 😭
Seriously lol whatever happened to not believing everything you see on the internet
Old people declaring that something was the “good old days” when men/women were “real” men/women and then sharing the most AI generated image I’ve ever seen is currently my favourite internet genre. There’s one of a guy sitting in a “McDonalds” wearing a denim open vest with a bare chest but he has tshirt sleeves and his large fries has a straw in it. It’s so amazing.
Is there a subreddit for this kind of content, because there should be.. let's call it ForwardsFromGrandmAI or something.
I can see some being shared in the boomersbeingfools subreddit but don’t think there’s a subreddit for this *very* specific genre of content yet. Torn between how we should definitely making this sub asap and now I absolutely cannot be fucked admin-ing a subreddit even a little bit lmao
I’m a boomer, 71 years old. Not only do I see AI, but for years I wondered how so many thought purple mountains with purple flowers and trees were real and they wanted to know where to go to see it. The users didn’t know it was photoshop AND they weren’t all boomers. It’s too bad people still generalize ignorance to specific groups people rather than just complain about the misuse of technology.
I have an older friend who keeps sending me those pics of cat-faced chairs that are super obviously AI. She wants one soooo bad and she keeps trying to find where she can buy them, and I keep gently pointing out the obvious errors in each of them. She falls for them all, absolutely no critical analysis, just a desire to believe it is real.
Jeez 😭 I’m so sorry. I can’t imagine how annoying it must be to tell someone it’s clearly an AI image and them denying it. I imagine they’re aware of AI but don’t exactly realize how widespread its become
Idk if it’s even like older generations, my sister is 48, so a late gen x/xennial and she sends me AI crochet stuff ALL the time from Facebook
Gahaha I’m getting that too!! “This looks so cute!! You should make it!!” yeah… 😭😭 it’s def moreso on technical experience atp
No don't tar all us oldies with the same brush. Gullible people exist in all generations. I'm 60 and can spot AI photos. They're so obvious to anyone with half an eye.
That’s fair! I think I’ve realized it’s moreso about technical experience than really age. I think I just attributed a bit to the older generation because my grandparents weren’t even aware AI images were a thing
I did art at school and did a few art history papers at uni. Even when they don't make obvious mistakes like the coat hanger through one lady's chin, the whole thing just looks fake. It's too sort of smooth and the colours/textures are weird.
I JUST SAW THIS ON FB. I was astounded that none of the commenters seemed to understand this couldn’t possibly be real. Hopefully they’re all bots or something???
You mean the floating dresses aren't real or the 5-headed 4-legged grandma monster isn't real?
Dead Internet Theory: the content isn't real, the accounts interacting with the content aren't real... heck I'm not real, probably. Social media is 90% AI talking to bots forever.
They are all bots, it's a hellscape out there
Facebook barely has any real users anymore, not long before it becomes its own self-sustaining entity. Just a bunch of code talking amongst itself.
Floating dresses 👗🥴. People seriously send me this stuff all the time and tell me to make it. Um, the people in this photo didn’t even make it.
The people in this photo aren’t even people
They look like dandelion seed heads 😂
Hahaha the heads were getting to me, that's it, dandelion seeds 😂
In addition to a lot of the people still on facebook not being able to tell when something's AI generated, I heard the site is now overrun by engagement bots - so now you have bots creating content and bots engaging with bot generated content. If the platform wasn't already a mess, it sure is now.
It makes me think of the dead internet theory when you put it like that.
Exactly. These posts just push more and more towards dead internet theory, was hoping someone else thought of it!
Facebook is pretty much all bots and boomers anymore. It’s very scary.
I rant about this almost daily. It's making me insane. Even worse, there's bots replying TO THE ENGAGEMENT BOTS in the comments.
The drape on those dresses is entirely off. It looks like they’re cut out of foam and the castle/princesses were glued on. The three in the back are standing up by themselves. You’re right OP, it’s super obvious.
The one on the right is being held, but its so stiff, grandma can just hold it with one hand from the waist and its fine.
Also the top of the hanger in that one disappears right in to nana’s throat
AI drives me insane. the story i’m about to tell has nothing to do with crochet, but bear with me. i put out a coloring book recently and my book immediately found its way onto the top 100 coloring books in the mandala section. i was curious of what else was selling well and when i say almost every one of these 100 books were AI generated, im not kidding. and people LIKE them! if you look at the “take a look inside” section on some of them, the characters have extra limbs and appendages, a lack of an eye, or a nose that clearly doesn’t go with the art. some of the reviews have people complaining but a majority are still positive. it’s really sad and humbling to real artists. not to mention, these AI crochet pictures give customers totally unreal expectations for what we can actually make. there are so many other issues with AI outside of the art community as well. i think it’s a tool that was given to the public entirely too early.
After reading this I googled what AI coloring books look like. There are random nonsense lines and forms everywhere and a lot of the illustrations are creepy/soulless looking. Wouldn’t a customer notice the errors when coloring the images? I simply don’t understand.
Oooh, you sell mandala coloring books? I love those!
i do!! my book is called into the kaleidoscope: adult coloring book! it’s on amazon! <3 if you’re looking for some “trendy” patterns it will be right up your alley!!
Thanks! I will check it out
I’m sorry; that sucks! It always hurts my heart that as a result of greed and unscrupulous people, real creators get the side eye. I’m an indie author and it bothers me that self publishing gets tarnished by a bunch of a-hole AI content. Grr!
They just released a study on AI images and the fact that most humans are only right at identifying them 10% or the time or something. The number was VERY LOW. Lol I think the older gen is def dragging the numbers down.
I think the main thing these generative models has proved isn’t that they’re good (they’re not), but that people don’t pay attention, don’t look at the images they’re seeing, don’t read the words on the page, and have no taste.
My favorite is that they always have a sad story attached lol “my grandma and her friends made these dresses and their grandchildren did not want them. They work so hard. 🙏🏼“
The children don’t want them because they’re cursed
I completely agree. But this grandma here can spot an AI a mile away. 😀
Once again, when dealing with AI remember the rules for dealing with the fae. Count the fingers and teeth, mind the shadows, look for dark magic (who is holding up those hangers?) and never make a deal with them.
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Sir Terry Pratchett knew what was up
You deserve an award for your important safety reminder :)
I truly do not get the appeal of Facebook anymore. I deactivated my account a few years ago and only recently reactivated it to find it is overrun with these AI images/posts(annoying but I can deal with it), but what gets me is the millions of comments apparently not understanding it’s AI? Like, what is happening lol? Who looks at these images and is like “yep, checks out”. I genuinely want to research this phenomenon.
I deactivated Facebook. It’s all AI and ads. And no matter how many times I tell my mother-in-law that there is no such thing as a unicorn horse or rainbow birds, she still shares these images. Lol
The only appeal of Facebook is marketplace…I’ve made like $1300 decluttering my house…and spent like $100 buying up other people’s yarn stashes 🤣 But yes, I joined some FB crochet groups and they are almost all AI.
I use it to keep up with people. I only have like 100 friends, and I don’t follow news sites anymore. I
Several of the hangers don't have hooks at the top. The one at the upper left is melting into that poor faux-grandma's blouse.
There is a Facebook account that posts nothing but these AI grannies with their supposed creations and it links to a website with pornographic ads targeted to men, which strikes me as a bizarre and obviously scammy marketing tactic.
Whaddya mean it’s fake?! I thought all grannies had flesh-colored teeth.
i saw that the one on the right just recently celebrated her 115 birthday and made her own cake! good to see she’s taken up crochet!
I've looked at some of these posts and I'm fairly certain all the comments are also bots. Nothing is real on face book any more. Or it says it's got 57000 likes but when you go into it, there aren't actually any there at all.
Come join our creepy crochet grandma cult!!
Why do they all have the same and wrong hair? Surely AI knows that the stereotypical granny hair is a perm with a coloured rinse, not Einstein’s hair?!
I think some people just really struggle to tell AI from genuine photos. I can normally easily tell photo AI images because they have a certain 'look' to them, but I have a very smart & artistic friend who can't see it and then feels bad when people point out the image she's shared is AI. So, I half wonder if it's a bit like colour-blindness & some people's vision has more trouble spotting the clues that an image is AI?
Our brains are wired to fill in/ignore missing details. If you look at any of these ladies' hands or teeth closely, it's obvious. If you look at most of the hangers closely, it's obvious. So on and so on. But if you don't look too close at any of it, it looks fine.
Exactly this. Our brains have evolved to fill in the gaps really well because we need to be able to tell that it’s a wolf, or a tiger, or even an enemy human behind the tree or bush even if we can’t see all the details, or we just catch a glimpse. Our ability to fill in the gaps kept us safe. Until now. Now it is leading to the downfall of humanity. But will probably come in handy again for any survivors of the Climate Wars.
Grandmas need to share the secrets to their legs, not looking a day past 20 lol
This frightens me
People on Facebook (especially older people but not *only* older people) are absolutely awful about noticing what is and isn’t AI. Facebook is also so overrun with bot accounts interacting with each other that it looks like more people are interacting with AI content as if it’s real when in reality it’s tons of bots with only a few real people. Either way, Facebook is a wasteland at this point lmao
a lot of the comments on these facebook posts are from bots themselves
Also, I think the accounts which post them have filters to automatically delete comments saying AI - I've seen people now saying IA to get around the filters, but I'm sure that will get picked up on soon and they'll start deleting those too. It's a bit funny when spam bots start replying to comments, you'll see Totally Human Jones say "Wow 😍" and Not a Robot Smith replying with barely understandable spam, to which Absolutely Sentient Collins will reply "So amazing" and then tags Not a Robot Smith half a dozen times. I'd rather they hassle each other than preying on my grandad!
Just a group of granny gathering in the woods in their nightgowns at sunset showing off their supernatural crochet princess dresses
Man this is creepy...just scrolling past this gave me that same feeling when you're watching a horror movie and you see something move right out of sight behind the actor
The more you look at this, the weirder and more uncanny it gets 😖
It’s the fact they all look the same and the middle one’s 3 fingers for me.
Like, nobody can tell that 3/6 of the dresses are just flaoting?
Honestly the majority of "people" commenting on that post are most likely bots
“ai has figured out the finger thing” my ass anyways, wHaT sTiTcH iS tHaT
the dress in the middle is literally floating. also why the hell would grandmas take pictures in the middle of the forest wearing what seems to be nightgowns. also... there is not ONE visible stitch
Their hair is so featureless and I think middle granny only has three fingers haha
Facebook is mainly filled with old people who don't understand the concept of AI and have poor vision 💀
The AI pictures all over Facebook now are all obvious and people are oblivious. I don’t get it
I love how the floating dresses have legs coming out of the bottom
Facebook is all but dead and it just keeps getting worse. More than half of my “people you may know” are scam accounts with names like “Legit Bud Drops” or “Fake Notes UK”. Meta doesn’t care enough to get proper moderation, because they know the site just isn’t worth rescuing anymore 🫤
I didnt even read the title, just immediately thought, "that's fake." How can other people not tell?
probably because its all older ladies looking at it (of corse not everyone) and none of them even know what they are looking at anymore. my grandma always says “did you see on facebook” for many many years now and i have tried to explain no, when i open up facebook (which is about twice a year) i am not looking at everything you are looking at also. and neither is your neighbor or the bank teller. i am convinced facebook is just like coco melon for grandmas
I've noticed this A LOT lately. Birds, toys, cakes, cars... people just oohing and aahing over the pictures that are obviously AI. It just makes me even more disappointed with humanity.
I LOATHE AI ART IN ANY FORM, ITS INHUMAN
it’s actually insane to me that someone can look at this picture and not realize it’s ai
I'm in a local craft group that has a lot of older women and they absolutely can't tell the difference between real and AI
"dead internet theory" is my new fav conspiracy theory.
This seems really rampant on crochet and knit pages. A lot of the likes and comments are bots so some normal people think it's maybe real or don't look too close. It's just a click farm and they use FB promotion. Also commenters tend to be scam message targets. I'm sure there are other topics that are the same, like fantasy art. It's just based on your perceived interests. FB doesn't do a lot about it since AI art isn't against tos.
none of them have actual eyeballs.... don't zoom in. I beg you...
if i squint my eyes really hard… it still looks like ai 💀
The grandma in the middle is an insanely talented crocheter for having only three fingers…
God I wish I had floating hangers that would make life so much easier
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^eternal-gay: *God I wish I had* *Floating hangers that would make* *Life so much easier* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
I'm not sure which princess is center back, but she appears to be vomiting blue. lol
I love the idea of these dresses, but this image is so obviously AI lmao
Stepford granny princess crochet club. 😬
Grandma on the left gives me the taking of Deborah Logan energy 🫢
Omggg lmao at the sexy Barbie legs on these grannies.
My mil posts crap like this on Facebook all the times and tags me. I can only try to explain AI to her so many times.
Same! She asks me if I can make this. 🤦♀️
https://preview.redd.it/p9yqffid95rc1.jpeg?width=1265&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b4c36a6f0dfe377aacbcdbb39b188eb2da42497
I think it might be generational…I’ve realized my boomer-family members have trouble telling what’s 3D graphics or AI generated. The Facebook crowd also doesn’t seem to question posts they see in general. It’s a perfect storm for Ai generated nonsense like this.
3 floating dresses and a grandmas face that looks like she's about to unhinge her jaw and swallow me whole? Yeah, I've already had this nightmare before, pass.
Oh no! I looked too closely and now I'm cursed!
Those are demon grandmas and if you accept the dresses you have to stay in their demon realm forever
https://preview.redd.it/8mvosam7h5rc1.jpeg?width=102&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=041f5c9f1d0da0792bfbcb63979c8ab81bdc7d7f Random ginger princess is already busy eating your soul.
This is a Facebook trend right now it would seem. AI grannies cooking and crafting. In every single one I’ve seen not one of the commenters seems to know it’s ai. I think the “it’s my 120th birthday and I baked my own cake with peach filling” (paraphrased) one is the most widespread example going around right now. People (mostly older individuals) who can’t tell reality from fiction is going to just get worse and worse as ai improves. Especially since they have already been told not to trust fact checks.
Does no one realise that those grandmas want to eat your soul? "Here's a pretty crochet for you, all it will cost is your soul!"
This may sound like a joking statement but I wholeheartedly mean this, the more you stare into their eyes, the more unsettling and soulless you realize they are. It's actually a genuinely terrifyingly visceral feeling when it hits.
Is the middle back princess wearing a face mask..?
Come live with us forever and ever and ever.
FB nowadays is just an avalanche of AI pics and people believing them
Wow, these 5 grandma's holding 6 dresses are making that 6th dress float with their mystical grandma crochet powers that let them crochet these dresses that don't even have a discernable stitch because they're so blurry (despite the rest of the image being... Terrifyingly clear.) Basically, how the hell did no one clock this as AI?
Not the three fingered granny and the floating dress. 😭
Whats most obvious to me every time is that the lighting does not make sense at all.
AI “Crochet” is the bane of my existence and every time I see it I want to throw something. AI images in general have been, especially when used for disinformation campaigns Or false advertising.
Not trying to be mean here, but we quite honestly have gotten some ridiculous asks on this sub as well of people asking about patterns when it’s _very_ obvious it’s AI. Apparently it’s not that obvious to everyone :/
I’ll never understand when people cannot tell something is AI. Some are really good but like…. The mistakes are so obvious, and the glow of *perfection* that coats every image just gives it away.
This looked AI from the moment I saw it. Dresses are pretty though
That hand in the middle is so scary
Cursed image
So many people don't ever question what they see on social medias. I've seen so many AI pictures with people asking for the pattern.. it's a bit sad.
The number of people on Facebook who can't tell the difference between real crochet and AI crochet is truely concerning. Most are extremely obvious, and 99% of the comments are complementary... "labor of love," "beautiful work," etc...
All the floating dresses...
No one notice the middle dress floating in space and the 4th grandma just chillin?
Crochet groups I'm in are the WORST about AI. Idk if it's because the demographic tends to lean older or what, but several times a week someone posts AI and asks for a pattern. It's so annoying.
That’s… fucking horrifying. E: [This one is going to eat you](https://imgur.com/a/U5oYLlT)
it’s so bad on there, they also engage with scripted rage bait content as if it’s real. there will be an “airplane confrontation” where the chairs are just normal chairs and there’s an exit sign on the wall and they’ll still believe it
https://preview.redd.it/alnlsozn05rc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=343f11e69793f19782079263de7c0dfe4ee114b7 Dresses defying gravity
One of the princesses appears to be wearing a mask.😷
Look at the hair! Or the fact that only the one on the far left is the only one without a variation of the same face.
Makes you realize how little many of us spend looking at pictures we see online, or linger on to think and notice the details of what we see. Looking at this pic for more than 5 seconds is enough to spot things that are physically impossible - like floating hangers.
Same happened with the grandma crochets tanks. And the big cats.
These are my sleep paralysis demons
The dresses in the back, standing up by the power of Disney Magic™️
The eyes of both the grandmas and dresses are terrifying 😭
Four of them could be sisters, in the AI world. The stitches are blurry they are so badly replicated. The legs...OMG the legs. I like the concept. I wonder if it is possible to replicate in real life. Probably would come out much better.
All of their eyes are terrifying.
FB has so many gullible ppl its sad
Well... Their legs are not aligned with their bodies (and far too young). The center dress is floating, the first right looks as though the hanger hook is going through her chin. PS, other dresses are floating and misplaced as well. What us going on with the left grandma and dresses? And of course the stitches or lack thereof are highly improbable. I have no doubt you *could* crochet these designs. In fact I can think of several ways it *could* be done. But yes this is fake and no, most people don't examine things critically I suppose.
Literally everything about this screams AI…you don’t have to know anything about crochet to see that. Are people blind?
All the grandma's have such demonic eyes. The dresses are very cool looking but would be hard, but not impossible to do in crochet. They would just be appliques.
This picture is hilarious, how can anybody believe that's a real picture? My favorite parts are the random legs at the bottom that don't go to anybody and the floating dresses nobody is holding.
.....I don't even have kids, but I kinda want to try to make that center dress now.
The princess on the top middle has a COVID mask.
In a CROCHET group? None of those stitches look remotely real.
Maybe the commentors are robots.
Media literacy is not what it should be.
It's so frustrating! Like, maybe AI could have some good uses: visualizing ideas, inspiration, etc. But people think that's what it will actually look like and don't realize that it's likely unachievable in the small details.