{"id":738778,"date":"2026-07-02T11:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738778\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:11:36","slug":"scammers-sell-seeds-for-exotic-ai-generated-flowers-that-dont-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738778\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don\u2019t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scammers are selling seeds for plants that don\u2019t exist with spectacular, AI-generated images of technicolor leaves that bloom in the shape of birds, butterflies, and cat heads. This type of fake seeds scam predates widespread access to AI image generators, but the ability to easily create these images has made the scam more widespread, especially on big online retailers like eBay, Amazon, and Etsy, which are unable to keep up with the flood of scam plant sellers on their platforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    This post is for paid members only<\/p>\n<p>Become a paid member for unlimited ad-free access to articles, bonus podcast content, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/membership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Sign up for free access to this post<\/p>\n<p>Free members get access to posts like this one along with an email round-up of our week&#8217;s stories.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scammers are selling seeds for plants that don\u2019t exist with spectacular, AI-generated images of technicolor leaves that bloom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-738778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}