{"id":7534,"date":"2025-12-19T20:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/tiktok-ai-slop-seeds-plants-dont-exist\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T20:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:04:05","slug":"tiktok-ai-slop-seeds-plants-dont-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/tiktok-ai-slop-seeds-plants-dont-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Accounts Are Using AI Slop to Sell Seeds to Plants That Don\u2019t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are thousands of varieties of hosta \u2014 a leafy decorative plant that you\u2019ve probably seen adorning outdoor spaces \u2014 being cultivated around the world, in a luxurious spread of colors, sizes, and textures. The hardy and easy-to-care-for plants thrive in the shade and can grow enormous leaves, making them a perfect project for amateur gardeners.<\/p>\n

Yet despite the glorious natural biodiversity that already exists in the species, scammers on TikTok are using AI-generated slop videos to sell dubious seeds for hosta varieties that don\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

A quick search<\/a> for \u201chosta seeds\u201d reveals countless videos of unnaturally colored hostas, from a fictitious variety featuring enormous, purple leaves<\/a>, to \u201cGod\u2019s rainbow<\/a>,\u201d a made-up plant that grows garish, rainbow-colored foliage, described as \u201cso magical, your neighbors will think it isn\u2019t real,\u201d according to a robotic-sounding AI voiceover.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s called midnight blue heart,\u201d a voiceover says in a separate video<\/a>. \u201cA rare black and blue hosta that looks like it came from another planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s magical, it\u2019s hardy, and only a few dollars,\u201d the voice continues. \u201cTap the link below to order and bring the midnight blue heart home.\u201d<\/p>\n

The obvious hallmarks of half-baked AI are impossible to ignore, from water streams from garden hoses that flow straight through the foliage or miss the plant entirely to seeds that magically float by themselves while held in a hand. Many of the videos even claim their miraculous hostas can thrive even in snowy conditions<\/a>, which is a nonsense prospect: hostas may be perennial, but aren\u2019t very frost-tolerant and sustain damage from freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n

The bizarre trend is part of a much larger deluge of AI slop drowning out human-authored content across social media platforms.<\/p>\n

Author Bree Bridges noticed her TikTok feed becoming overwhelmed<\/a> by the videos.<\/p>\n

\u201cTikTok has started giving me AI-generated garden content with videos of people supposedly growing plants that quite clearly look like they came from the \u2018Avatar\u2019 planet,\u201d Bridges wrote in a post on Bluesky<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd also they\u2019re watering them indoors sometimes while watering the carpet and they grow in three days,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Experts have already warned that hosta lovers should stay far away from seeds that purport to grow into fantastical plants. Ads that New York-based NBC<\/em>-affiliate WHEC<\/em> showed to Bill Hegeman<\/a>, co-president of the Genesee Valley Hosta Society, immediately raised red flags.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefinitely all fake,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cStop!\u201d the TikTok account behind the outdoor living store Touch of Eco exclaimed<\/a> in a recent clip. \u201cIf you see these colorful hosta seeds on TikTok, never buy them. These are fake, AI-generated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even before the advent of generative AI, fake seeds were already a widespread scam on the internet<\/a>. As YouTuber Atomic Shrimp explored in a video<\/a> last year, seeds for made-up flowers like \u201ccat face flowers<\/a>\u201d that inexplicably feature the faces of felines are being sold for considerable amounts of money.<\/p>\n

On eBay, for instance, 50 seeds for a \u201ccute cat face orchid<\/a>\u201d are being sold for $6.68. Poorly photoshopped or possibly AI-generated images show the faces of cats perched in the middle of fantastical plants.<\/p>\n

During his investigation, Atomic Shrimp noticed that dodgy <\/strong>seed vendors were all using similar \u201ccookie-cutter sites,\u201d which are \u201cprobably very easy, cheap, and quick to deploy from a template.\u201d The sites are also likely \u201cacting as a front end for seedy, pun intended, drop shipping operations where the fulfilment, assuming there is such, is coming from the same sellers that list the same dodgy scam seeds for sale on Wish, AliExpress, Amazon, eBay, and other marketplaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

But instead of selling preposterously photoshopped<\/a> seeds for \u201crainbow tomatoes,\u201d scammers are using new tactics in a new age defined by AI slop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One account on TikTok is even recycling the concept of a \u201ccute cat orchid\u201d by animating the images<\/a> and turning them into a whole video.<\/p>\n

Another video<\/a> shows an adult cat\u2019s face literally blinking its eyes as its disembodied head is reincarnated in the shape of a demonic orchid.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow have 107 people bought this?\u201d one TikTok account wrote in the comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe people actually fell for this,\u201d another added.<\/p>\n

More on AI slop: <\/strong>AI \u201cResearch\u201d Papers Are Complete Slop, Experts Say<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The post TikTok Accounts Are Using AI Slop to Sell Seeds to Plants That Don\u2019t Exist<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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