477
Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don’t Exist
(www.404media.co)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
477 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
85976 readers
3647 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
my point is that if you have absolutely zero due diligence. then it's sort of your fault.
The way I view it is that fraud is a crime, but we also have an ethical obligation not to let ourselves be marks. Same goes for lots of other crimes. Legal penalties are one deterrent. Raising the barrier to entry for a criminal activity by being a hard target is another. Both are good. But there will always be gullible, vulnerable people, and saying that they're fair game is much too close to eugenics. Healthy societies protect the vulnerable, but also train people to be less vulnerable when that's possible.
but when someone is that stupid, we cannot protect them. we usually instututionalise people who aren't able to keep themselves safe.