Was a little shocked by this, but I suppose this is now going to become the normal. I look at ChatGPT images regularly for at my job (horrible I know), and this is so obviously ChatGPT images. The colour grade is an obvious giveaway, but also you can see the text doing weird stuff: like the F and R letters combining in the Scarface “drawing”.
What’s worse is that I saw people actually buying this crap. Insane. This is a scam and it should be illegal.
by KingOfSquirrels
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I am an (actual) artist and this depresses me to no end. I would love to call this person out, but I’ve not got the balls lol
And Tony Montana’s ‘little friend’ is missing the grenade launcher.
It’s unfortunately very common these days. Around where I live, I see a lot of AI slop phone cases, posters, etc being sold all as “original.”
What’s even worse is that these people are clearly trying to market this slop to more elderly folk who don’t know any better :/
It is Greenwich Market, although there are some great sellers there, most of the stuff is just typical garbage made in China you can find anywhere else.
I honestly recommend Crafty Fox Market. Today I went to their Christmas market in Kings Cross and found top-quality stuff from many local artists.
It’s unfortunately overrunning a lot of these types of markets. There’s ai slop at Hammersmith markets as well, which is marketed as ‘all handmade by locals’
When I raised my concerns to the organisers, they told me ai is not against their policies and not to worry about it.
So much for ‘handmade’…
In all honesty if you buy tat like this you deserve to be scammed
Don’t even get me started on Camden Market. It was already just Temu junk, but the AI influx has made it even worse… I didn’t think it was possible.
I like how the famously almost always silent Mr Bean is saying something.
These markets have always been full of dropshipped tat being sold as ‘original’ or ‘artisanal’.
The only way to stop it is for the live, laugh, love, crushed velvet and silver upholstery lot to stop buying it.
Every tat shop in Scotland has the same endless series of AI highland coos… sitting on the toilet. It’s absolute trash.
Claiming it’s original is hilarious
How does the caricature even work lmfao, do they have that there to make the AI slop look more legit, then if asked say they can’t do that right now?
Frankly I believe they don’t give a damn 😂
Every market I’ve been too recently has just been AI junk compared to the usual junk.
Looks like standard Christmas Market Temu junk
Yeah, but isn’t it a pretty obvious gimmick purchase here? I doubt somebody really expects to buy an original work for 14 pounds in this case
How much were the prints?
And you didn’t get yourself a ‘live drawing’ just to see what happened?
I thought most of the things sold at these places you could find on aliexpress etc for a fifth of the price anyway – and of course etsy has pretty much gone this way too a long time ago sadly.
I wonder if they use generative AI for the ‘live drawing’ too.
A fool and his money….
It’s all over the world. I’ve travelled across a lot of Europe this year and can’t tell you how many shops are selling prints of AI-generated rainbow coloured bears holding flags or some cliche item of the country I’m visiting.
Funnily enough I also saw these on Friday and was very disappointed
These frames are already a warning sign.
Really dislike how collectable figures / drawings whatever all have such oversized heads. The head is usually the same size or BIGGER than the entire body lol. I hope proportional heads come back in fashion again soon.
The rest of them are just normal ai slop. Mr Beans eyes are creepy though
It’s so funny how all AI images still have that yellow-brown tint from when they were all copying the studio Ghibli style
Hideous
Even the framing is terrible omg put a little effort in ,😭😭
I go to a lot of crafts fairs, and over the past decade have watched them slowly ber over taken by trash. The latest one I went to had a stand similar to the one OP saw, and the man in charge was questioned a said ‘i’m the designer. The price reflect production cost. Ink and Backing and bla bla bla bullshit about the cost of material.
Next to him was a candle stand that looked oddly 3D printed. so I assumed the moulds had been printed. No. Specialist 3D printer. Printed candles. ‘Craftsman’ had used a programme and filled a printer reservoir with specialist wax and then walked away.
Some fairs are putting their foot down and banning ai and certain 3d printed items, but most won’t do anything.
Gonna see a lot more of this in coming years lol
That’s the current situation with practically every single market and convention in the UK.
It’s almost impossible to escape from:
• AI art
• Those 3D printed dragons and 3d printing nightmares
• Temu/Aliexpress dropshipping
The only solutions to this problem is requesting proof that something was made by the seller.
To be fair Camdwn has always been tacky it was known as the place plastic punks and weekender struggling artists go to bleed tourists wallets dry. If you want to find good stuff Camden market has always been the last place Londoners look
It’s not that weird if you zoom out a bit.
People repost memes even though they werent made by meme artists. Just some dude with a tool on the internet.
If you can make images with a tool, and they’re images people enjoy and would put on the wall in their home, people are going to sell them.
It’s a change, and it’s going to shake a lot of shit up, some negatively, but things always change.
Hilariously I saw these exact images being sold in New York last week on multiple stalls in Central Park
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