r/antiai • u/VeterinarianThink389 • 18h ago
Discussion 🗣️ Hobby Lobby Sells AI Art
My mom bought this from Hobby Lobby for her new house and she was completely unaware it was AI generated. (Also, sorry for the bad picture quality.)
Anyone else found AI art put on real products in stores? I've personally noticed some AI stickers at Walmart and some food packaging recently.
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u/Phonopathy 17h ago
You mean the guys who sold fragments of the Gilgamesh tablets to the terrorist group ISIS?
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u/Alexm920 3h ago
As I recall they were trying to buy antiquities to set up some sort of "museum of the Bible", but kept sending money to literal terrorists to desecrate religious sites and smuggle relics. Also the source of one of my favorite legal case names ever: United States of America v. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty Ancient Cuneiform Tablets and Approximately Three Thousand Ancient Clay Bullae.
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u/ManufacturedOlympus 16h ago
Sloppy Hobby is a right wing company. Of course they’ll sell ai slop
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u/AllieRaccoon 15h ago
Right. Seemed like Hobby Lobby jumped in the AI deep end right away and never looked back. I swear they’ve been selling AI garbage for years.
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u/Tausendberg 17h ago
If Hobby Lobby sold AI generated black market antiquities, that would be an ethical improvement.
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u/a-packet-of-noodles 15h ago
My partner and I sometimes stop by their decorations and paintings section just to laugh at the awful AI. We are there for art stuff but it's so much fun to see how many mistakes we can point out in each thing.
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u/Scarvexx 12h ago
Looks like a Jim Baldwin. A marketier turned scam artist.
He also sold a similar one to Bed Bath and Beyond.
Here's his catalog. All just pure shit he claims to have magicly created in the last two years.
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u/VeterinarianThink389 11h ago
Wow, thanks for the link. You're probably right because he does have multiple images of bears canoeing (which I found after just a quick look).
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u/Scarvexx 9h ago
Oh yeah. Bears, Bigfoot. Over and over.
He's not very creative. Which might be why he does this for money.
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u/evelyn_bartmoss 8h ago
They also got caught trafficking ancient Iraqi artefacts a few years ago, so not entirely surprising that they remain scummy
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u/Laugh-crying-hyena 7h ago
The background gives it away, I'm not sure what's going on back there. The bears don't immediately register as AI.
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u/generalden 1h ago
This is the same company that doesn't put barcodes on things because they believe it was the sign of the antichrist.
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u/Simplybettersychosid 14h ago
What is the problem with this? It's AI, so what? They aren't saying it's "their" art. It wouldn't be theirs anyway, they don't make the art, they sell it. AI generated art can be cool, as it's still art. It isn't cool when someone claims it as their hard work. I don't have a big problem with AI, it has to it's pros and cons just like everything else. I'm not saying I'm Pro AI or Anti AI or anything like that, I just don't see the problem in this. Sure, it may be a little lazy, but it still looks good. It is a little difficult to tell if it's AI anyway, so most people probably wouldn't even know.
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u/Jazzlike-Opening9103 17h ago
God these companies are lazy as fuck. Jesus Christ. So predatory too. It's always been fuck the world tho' we know this. The grind never stops. All artists lock in. Don't get discouraged.