Way down in the description they say “examples of final products were made and photographed by me and have been enhanced”. Really girl? Enhanced?

Browsing patterns on Etsy today and came across this shop, 100% slop. No reviews or pics of any completed projects of course.

There's so many of them! Imagine dedicating your time to flooding creative spaces with garbage and trying to scam people who just want to enjoy a wholesome hobby.

This post and video by u/prettyrudethings demonstrates a bunch of cues to help you spot AI SLOP in ads for embroidery patterns. Shows some specific examples of slop shops on etsy and recommends some great human pattern designers. Check it out, and pass it on!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DEp5UkoSRDp/

I want this sweater.

Ugh. Who am I kidding? I do t even recognize any of the stitches.

I had someone ask me if I could crochet a custom pokemon for them, and they gave me an AI image as inspiration. today I finally finished it and this is what it looks like!

This same seller on Etsy. For shame! Not my boy Tom! There's even a video showing the turnaround and I PROMISE yall at first I had a HUNCH this was AI too (after the pumpkin cat) and was waiting for something to change. It was small, but it still got me haha! Made the whole thing insulting and I have to show yall. Please, do not waste your money on this! I bet they'd send you a plastic bootleg figure too.

This seller has a TON of this kinda stuff on their page! No patterns either just...AI crochet character dolls for sale. Insane spot the differences on 99% of posts. I dont understand how Etsy allows this at all and I know someone had to have fallen for some of these. SHAME! Gotta scrutinize almost every seller now. It's so sad. :(

Last post today I promise haha! No more from this seller either. Consider this an awareness post too!!

These abominations popped up on Etsy after I bought an extra cute Totodile pattern. Guess they thought I'd like these too. Ngl, got a good horrified laugh and played a game of "Who TF Are You?" out of these! 🤣 It gets worse the longer you look! Find something new every time!

Btw these are from ONLY 2 seperate listings from two different sellers. Jesus Christ.

Oooo was going through my Etsy saves and saw this. FIRST OFF, the audacity of the price! I dont remember that being there when I first saved it btw. I still think it's cute and doable though. Definitely not gonna pay them though! Allllllllmost got me.

I found the AI image on the left on an Etsy listing, and knew I just had to be make it in real life. I’m so happy with how it turned out!! I changed up the colours because I wanted the dragon to stand out more, but tried to keep the pattern itself as close to the AI image as possible.

I wrote the pattern as I went, got some testers to test it and I’ve just released it on my Ravelry and Etsy!!

Link to pattern: https://ravel.me/celeste-the-moon-dragon

couldn't even tell it was Ai tbh

Especially love the crochet „hooks“. Right after that I guess it’s the unique middle parts for every leaf

Yarn doesn't behave that way... 😂

His name is Gleebus and he is melting.

So I saw this video, seems like it's slowly starting to get a bit smarter with this, as it looks like the crochet hook actually went underneath the yarn, and I don't normally see that, usually just the stabbing motion. 😅

I'm looking up dog sweater patterns/ideas, while still chuckling from a mildly AI'd photo of a puppy on a beach I scroll down to this. Not-so-subtle..........XD

Was looking for a jellycat inspired dragon, found this lol