Found at a large chain, so I assume they’re selling this slop all over the US
A similar, non-AI slop blanker is $10-12 at Walmart
AI slop for plastic slop.
Both way overpriced.
Both super bad for the environment (a third of microplastics in circulation comes from plastic/plastics in clothing & such).
I’ve been seeing a LOT of AI slop garden flags and a couple of holiday banners on garage doors. The most egregious of the latter was large enough to cover a 2 car garage door and featured an anthropomorphic scarecrow bending forward while holding onto it’s upper thighs. Both obviously slop due to the muddled cartoony nature and weirdly provocative.
Worse was going to a Christmas craft fair and seeing multiple vendors selling such slop. Nightmare Before Christmas flags that had a mostly consistent Jack, but the various Sally depictions ranged from mostly accurate to generic pretty goth girl that was vaguely made up to look like her.
Holy shit, I could be making bank off the kinds of morons who reflexively buy “God Bless America” products.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has stated, “Not only is patriotism right, patriotism will make you rich.”
They’re all in on it. You have to give up your morals to extract obscene amounts of money from the workers…
I’ve often thought, if I had a little less integrity, I could make huge money off the world’s idiots.
Faraday cage MAGA hats, weeping <insert religious icon here> statues, that kind of thing.
I think my favourite grift of all time was the little plugin devices that “optimised” your home electrical system. Literally just a blinking LED circuit.
When my mother in law last came to visit, she mailed ahead a plug-in “purifier” that was supposed to… de-ionize your phone. Or something. There was an LED but she said that it’s not supposed to light up. She wanted us to have it plugged in and humming before she got there.
So I took it apart.
Super simple circuit - it was a remote controlled outlet switch. Was eventually able to find what looked like an exact match, sold in a three-pack for like $30. The LED was supposed to light up when it was turned on (with the missing remote). MIL paid like $90 for it from one scammer or another. She was super pissed when it wasn’t plugged in when she arrived. Refused to listen to anything either of us had to say on the matter.
She’s still patiently waiting for the global currency reset that will make her rich. And/or the cloud ships to come and rescue the faithful.
It’s trivially easy to grift the credulous.
I was recently talking to one of those CrossFit® weirdos and he was going on and on about his special health water that allegedly had… nitrogen… added to it. He was swearing up and down about the health benefits.
It’s like… Buddy… You know you’re breathing 78% nitrogen right now, right? If it’s so healthy you can just… Keep breathing…?
Nitrogen is reasonably soluble in water - about 18 mg/l, compared to 10 mg/l for oxygen. If it’s running a bit low, you can choose the lid on the bottle and give it a shake - the bubbles have a lot of surface area to promote gas readsorption.
It’s not what we’d normally consider an essential nutrient, unless of course you’re a nitrogen-fixing plant. CrossFit guy wasn’t actually some green beans in disguise, were they?
Your home boy may have been trying to talk about nitric oxide? Supposedly that has some health benefits.
Possibly lol
Ironically, those scammy plug-ins are what finally got me to learn about electrical impedance. I knew they were bullshit but I didn’t have the background to explain why. I finally found a an ElectroBOOM video that laid it all out.
Im tired boss
You could probably cut them up and sew the pieces to make Apple phone sleeves. Then undercut Apple by selling them for only about a hunnert bucks or so.
Well at least they’re honest about it…
bunk
/bʌŋk/
noun
nonsense.
“anyone with a brain cell would never believe such bunk”Are we sure it’s AI slop? The picture doesn’t have obvious errors.
Bunk is the size, which translates to 60x80.
If it were 50x60 would be a throw, which is the more common fleece size.
I’d still never buy this garbage, but I think it’s cheap Chinese garbage instead of AI garbage.
Mismatched bed and cab
Messed up wipers
Messed up grill badge
Messed up hood vent badge
Mismatched tires
Weird hubcap
Multiple unnecessary lights, like 6 a side. It’s a spider truck!
Odd fender artifacts
Yeah, it‘s AI.
The flag on the door is also super fucked up. It’s only got 34 stars, with the bottom row being cut in half by the border of the blue field.
Before anyone pops out of the woodwork and goes, “Well, acktshully…” about the Union flag during the Civil war, note also that this one’s only got twelve stripes. If what I learned in elementary school was true, there is no point in history where the American flag did not have thirteen stripes on it.
The windshield wipers
The writing is probably human but the car and rest of the image is likely ai based because of the contrast level. Obviously actually made in China or SE Asia but thats also more justification for being AI as its another way to cut costs.
So even though they didn’t pay an artist or license an image, they still had to print/make the blanket, distribute it via truck… it’s not gonna be free, or (much) less expensive than one that doesn’t use AI slop for the art.
A company that makes these and licenses them may pay less for, say, KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix) than they would for, say, Zootopia 2 (Disney), and they’d pay even less for AI slop (nothing). But they’re going to normalise the prices and sell all of them at the same price. Even if the first two were all they sell, they’re not gonna sell the Zootopia one for $5 more than the KPop Demon Hunters one because Disney charges more to license IP than Netflix does. They will sell for the same price. And because the Disney one will sell more, that’s what they’re going to lean more towards, and the Netflix one with the cheaper licensing will be more profit.
I’ve paid $30-40 for licensed blankets. My wife and I have blankets with licensed art from Fallout (game series), The Promised Neverland, and Tokyo Ghoul (both anime and manga series). They make more profit from AI stuff, but even before AI, they’d just license stock art for far less than they’d pay to use art from a commercial IP. Like a galaxy, or a psychedelic pattern. Not AI slop, but not something they had to pay much for, if anything.
