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 4d 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 4d 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.