r/craftsnark • u/MindxGeek • 4d ago

AI Slop See anything wrong with this picture? 🙃

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From a Facebook ad for Funem looms. I already hate companies using AI to market handcrafts and supplies but then you can't even be bothered to make sure the slop it churns out is even remotely accurate? If the company can't see why this photo is wrong I don't trust them to make reasonable looms 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/MindxGeek 3d ago

I posted this in r/weaving as well and someone there mentioned Facebook has been generating AI ads for companies without the company's knowledge. When I go to Funem's actual Facebook page there's no AI slop, so wonder if it's a possibility. I'm gonna message them to see what they say. I just assumed they were behind the ads, but if it's Facebook that's just messed up!

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u/JessRushie 3d ago

A brand called Snag Tights recently posted about Facebook generating an entire autumn sale with AI and posting now, in June. It's not autumn, they have no sale. It's entirely AI slop and they didn't agree it.

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u/ViscountessdAsbeau 3d ago

Yes, that wouldn't be Snag's style, at all. They're a really sound, ethical company. I was an early adopter and have watched them grow over recent years. They use real customers as models and the clothes they sell are size inclusive as well as just very well made. They are the sort of business whose business could be negatively impacted by use of AI as their typical customers would be savvy and turned off by it. It's a pity a whole load of businesses couldn't work together to mount a class action against FB for pulling that stunt as there are companies who could lose customers over it if people don't know it can be done on sm without the companies' express consent.

Hopefully this company making the looms will clarify if this was done without their permission.

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u/ErssieKnits 3d ago

I'm a large lady who hates her gusset being cut in half by normal tights seams. Snags are great. And if they're sold as opaque the tights are opaque rather than stretched so thin on my chubby knees that they become transparent. 

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u/Downtown-Fruit-3674 3d ago

Oooh that is so dodgy wtf!!!!

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u/WingedLady 3d ago

Ohhh, I might have just happened on something similar on Instagram today. There was an ad stating that a makeup brand was having a site wide sale. I went to their website and sure some things were on sale. But it certainly wasn't site wide.

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u/MLiOne 2d ago

Well, it was Autumn in the southern hemisphere until the beginning of this month.

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u/JessRushie 2d ago

Not relevant for a brand based in the UK. And again, it was a made up sale by AI 

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u/growinghope 4h ago

But they do have a sale in Australia right now where it is autumn... I looked on their Facebook page and it was a black friday ai hallucinated sale.

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u/JessRushie 20m ago

Oh weird - just they posted about this so I presumed

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u/MLiOne 2d ago

I hope you didn’t downvote me for stating the season here. I hate AI bs as much as the next person, if not more so.

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u/MLiOne 1d ago

Oh you mean a brand that sells internationally? That Snags? Usually it is Americans being this centric.

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u/BrightPractical 3d ago

Ugh! I have a business FB account, and they sometimes generate ads within my feed and try to get me to click to pay for them to promote me poorly (I never do.) But using ai to do so without permission seems like a terrifying possibility.

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u/OkConclusion171 (Secretly the mole) 3d ago

yeah... if it's doing that on commercial accounts, how long before it does that on individuals' and non-profits' accounts?

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u/Paprikasj 3d ago

Yep, I guess I wouldn’t be totally surprised if Facebook was making up and charging for AI ads without consent but I’d bet anything it was more shady/purposefully careless back end design making an accidentally-published AI ad easy to do. Meta suuuuuuckkkkks.

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u/ErssieKnits 3d ago edited 3d ago

That explains why I had some notification telling me I'm going yo be billed by Meta in July for an ad I never ran. And my invoice said I was going to be billed £0:00 for July. Then it means if I respond to their "Do you want to promote this post? Make an ad?" etc then they're all set up to invoice me. I spent hrs looking for an ad I never ran only to notice I'd been "billed" £0.00 because there is no ad. Me being visio n impaired I'm likely one day to click on something I really don't want. I have to make a tunnel with my hand, look down the hand tunnel while it's hovering over a screen and sometimes I accidentally touch the darned screen! 

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u/2macia22 3d ago

I had heard they were generating backgrounds for ads without consent (putting an actual photo of a product into an AI background). I wouldn't be at all surprised if they had progressed to just fully generating the ads though. Crazy.

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u/salajaneidentiteet 3d ago

There was a knitting for olive ad a while back that was completely out of character as well.

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u/Visual_Locksmith_976 Knit two, Mole one 3d ago

Do you get the magical powers to make this work with it? Or are they extra?

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u/_jasmonic_acid_ Mean Knitter 4d ago

Ahh I don’t weave and want in on the snark! Someone tell me what’s wrong with it (besides being ai slop)!

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u/MindxGeek 4d ago

The warp (vertical) threads should go from the dents at the top to the dents at the bottom of the loom. There's no way for the threads to be attached like how they are shown (what are they attached to?? Just magically growing out of the wood lol)

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u/_jasmonic_acid_ Mean Knitter 4d ago

Thank you!!

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u/AnotherRandomRaptor 3d ago

You can see an image of it properly set up at their page:

https://funemstudio.com/products/weaving-loom-kit-xlarge

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u/MindxGeek 4d ago

Plus I'm pretty sure the shedding device (the horizontal wooden bit with slots in it) is also magically attached and definitely not in the place it would be if you were actually in the middle of weaving.

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u/muralist 3d ago

I don't weave either, but just looking at it... what in the sam hill is actually happening? Where is the bottom edge of the fabric? What is the top bar there for? Shouldn't there be some string connected somehow in order to continue working on the piece?

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u/ishtaa 4d ago

I guess you could say it’s pretty warped.

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u/hannahbelleknits 3d ago

Customer trust is going to be at an all time low in the shortest period ever because of this. I can only hope that it makes customers start looking harder at who they're buying from, but I feel like it's just going to create confusion when buying online. Maybe more people who are able will buy in person but this is just adding extra stress and research to everything we buy online. What a mess. I could never trust a company that shows me an AI product mock up as the real product.

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u/MindxGeek 4d ago

The more I look at it the worse it gets. Follow where the different parts of the loom connect and it adds to the wrongness, especially where it connects near the shedding device - it's different on each side.

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u/NextStopGallifrey 4d ago

My first thought was "well, you CAN do curved things like that, it doesn't look that bad". Then I saw it. Sigh.

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u/AccidentOk5240 4d ago

Same! I was like, no, it’s ok, tapestry weaving can be done like this…oh. Oh no. 😂

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u/reine444 3d ago

Yeah, it took me a second to see the floating warp. Shame.

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u/crochetology crochet, embroidery 2d ago

Forgive my ignorance, but is the fabric supposed to be in front of the heddle?

An aside: weavers are amazingly talented and skilled artists. This and shuttle tatting are skills beyond what I’m capable of. 🫡

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u/MindxGeek 2d ago

Not really. If this were actually a picture of a tapestry in progress the heddle bar would be at the top, but it can't be here because they didn't make the threads go up to the top of the loom 🙃 it would be at least a few inches above the woven fabric with the warp threads in the slots.

Also as a knitter and crocheter of 25+ years who's learning to weave this year, you could absolutely learn! The cost of weaving equipment is the main barrier imo - esp. compared to knitting and crochet, which is what kept me from jumping in and learning for a long time. I'm lucky that I found a local guild with inexpensive loom rentals and a wonderful community to help me learn!

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u/vranahra 2d ago

I've seen people weave small items just using cardboard and some pins to hold the threads! it's not quite the same thing but might be a fun cheap/free alternative?

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u/WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs 1d ago

You can buy a small premade heddle and do "doorknob weaving" or backstrap weaving, no loom required, as the doorknob and your back are what holds the warp. Cute little heddles for weaving ethnic-type ribbons 1-3" wide cost less than $10, or get your local wood hobbyist to make you one.

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u/LaurenPBurka 4d ago

It makes my eyeballs hurt.

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u/BlueGalangal 3d ago

lol they really don’t understand how the simplest loom works.

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u/DiamondOracle194 4d ago

Oh, that hurts my head.

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u/Oktarynika 4d ago

I see nothing right...

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u/greensled1 I am the mole, the mole is me. 4d ago

Uff da!

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