HOLD UP! I gots an idear... this has nothing to do with AI except you stating "that can't be done". Example: that Super Mario doll? YOU have enough experience in this craft, to create him, as he is. Have the confidence to jump in & try! Yeah, it's gonna take time & loads of patience & pulling up old patterns of other stuff you've made, but ya can. Heck, some parts will have to be made separately & sewed on afterwards. Yet, YOU CAN! Remember, if you record yourself trying, speaking to the camera, frogging & frigging again, you can always watch your video & make a pattern by seeing, exactly what you did in the moment to figure it all out. Then, you can sell your pattern. Just not the Super Mario doll. With him you gotta just sell the paper, pattern & time. Not the image at all. 😂😂😂 Necessity breeds invention. You CAN do anything! ❤❤❤❤❤
Believe it or not, i found a physical, published, real-life book that was chock-full of AI generated patterns and photos. My girlfriends grandmother had bought it to try to learn how to crochet and was getting frustrated that her stuff was never coming out like the photos and was ready to give it up. It was egregious. The book is called 'Crochet for Beginners: The Bible' by Lisa Jones, specifically the 2024 edition. If you can get your hands on it, im sure it would be quite enlightening
There are so many on Amazon, they're getting flooded with them ! It's sometimes hard to find the real ones on some of the pages. I wish it was easier to report AI generated products on Etsy, Amazon etc... I've heard of people purchasing foraging books that were unfortunately generated by AI and ended up being poisoned. The foraging community is trying to warn beginners as much as possible but realistically they just can't warn beginners who never joined the online community in the first place.
This is why you learn from UA-cam SPECIFICALLY That's where I had my beginnings in crochet, the Crochet UA-camrs are the most thorough and clear in their directions, even in some amigurumi
it is not what I wish, but how do we even know it is a bubble that will burst? Like whatever is generated nowadays is just....decent. Or dare I even say, good looking. I am not pro AI, again. But saying it's a bubble that will burst is starting to feel more like a wish than the truth.
There is a decent amount of pushback against ai. I’ve actually not really seen anyone on the Internet say they like it. Plus the energy expenditure to run it is massive, and it’s also slowly taking over more jobs. I don’t know that it will burst, but I certainly hope so
@@Coeurlarme The thing is AI is being too expensive to run most AI companies still didn't got any profit and are just bleeding money, because all of them are unicorn companies. Like it will never disappear 100% but I bet it will be like NFTs, companies drop it after they notice it isn't profitable like they thought it would be
I looked it up and Instagram uses posts to train their ai, so the more people post on instagram the better their ai is going to get. Because of this I have deleted instagram.
Yeah as soon as they mentioned the images were created by instagrams ai it made so much sense, there's probably very few other places online with quite as many pictures of peoples crochet. I do wonder if we're able to contaminate their data by at all if we manged to post enough edited photos of our crochet and confuse it about what they should look like?
I recently saw a video about how the gardening community is suffering from ai images aswell, mostly to scam people that don't know better. It's such a shame that it seems to be happening everywhere at this point. Grifters gotta grift i guess, but this is getting ridiculous
There have been fake photos in ads for lots of garden items and other things for decades, long before Photoshop or AI were available. I.e.: Fruits and vegetable plants to be planted in pots, trellises, arbors, etc. that were ‘guaranteed’ to produce an inordinate amount of fruits looking incredibly beautiful and perfect, like nothing ever found at grocery stores. All fake.
im happy i found your channel. i hate living in this cyberpunk dystopia. i hate having to tell my parents they got scammed and lied to. i hate being forced to talk to a robot because the cost of being rich is too easy to lay off humans. i'm specifically an animator, i have not "made it" into the industry, as AI overruns everything i do. im scared. but im comforted by your resilience. thank you for bringing awareness to even the most niche of topics. covid to AI has taught me one thing, we love to consume and take everything for granted
The fact that NONE of those images were real makes me feel sick. I fully agree with your sentiment of "we are removing the humanity from art". Part of why I love crochet and fiber arts is that people are SO creative and share their creativity in some crazy ways, but now my FB crochet groups are becoming people posting an AI image and saying "anyone have this pattern?" AI is learning from people posting and it's only going to get better. I fell for an AI recipe this afternoon, the recipe sounded fine as a concept but the images were off and the text was so...ChatGPT-y... The fact that we are seeing AI used in BIG company ads (the holiday honda one, the coca cola one, raycon) is so scary. As a retail worker, my specific job cant be over run by AI in the near future but those who are losing work to this stuff breaks my heart
I was watching a video a few weeks ago about how in the very ñear future even influencers are going to be ai. There is a company that influencers/ people can sell their likeness to and it can be used in advertising and for influencers pr posts. All i could think was wgat in the dystopian cyberpunk madness is this. We wont be able to trust anything soon. Honestly there needs to be a creative space online with no ai allowed. Because this mess is annoying. Im getting to the point that id rather use a free pattern than risk using something from some random because at least i wont have wasted that much money yarn can be frogged. But i have a few creators i trust.
Technology was supposed to bring the truth to everyone. Never have conspiracy theories been more rampant. Never has scamming been easier. Since I am 62 I just thank my lucky stars my generation won't have to figure this out. But those coming up behind us grew up with this. May not see the problems. I hope they can figure out how to deal with this. Not saying I won't try to support the movements to bring some of this under control but holy crap this is all rampant. We couldn't even come together during a pandemic without half the population saying it wasn't real.
Technology doesn’t take creative jobs. It’s the immoral people who misuse the technology to scam people. It’s not AI, it’s people who have always looked for shortcuts to make money. Before this they used software to change images. Thieves and charlatans have always existed. We just need to be smarter. Information like this helps. We need to identify and punish those that misuse these tools.
nothing went wrong, you were just lied to. the goal of technology has always been to reduce and control the population. this is the same group that gave us: evolution, communism, eugenics. those ideas remove the source of creativeness from people and eventually just remove people. according to modern 19th/20th century technocrats everything is going well....and they can't wait to get a nuerolink in your head.
Exactly. AI and Robots are supposed to do the tedious and boring stuff (cleaning, taxes and so on) so we can enjoy creativity, hang around with friends and so on.
OMG... You are like my grandmother. She could watch TV carry on a conversation and crochet all at the same time. I'm so jealous. Ive been crocheting for a long time and still have to tell people don't talk to me I'm counting
He was going so fast I thought he was knitting at first . And they make me wonder how in the world do they do that . I’m a crocheter and self taught knitter. But I still have to look at what I’m doing or I got a mess . And I’ve been crocheting since I was in my teens and I’m 66 now .
People want to act like AI will have no real life consequences, but AI crochet is suck an obvious example showing that is DOES. "Sellers" are popping up all over the place with fake listings of impossible items for super cheap, leading to more and more people being scammed. It's happening with more then just crochet too. Any medium can be faked and sold to unsuspecting buyers. It's getting so advanced in some cases that even if you knew what to look for, you could still be tricked. So if you aren't an artist who thinks AI wont have any affect on you, I think your mind will change when it affects your wallet.
Y estas es una de las razones por las que en algun momento la ia va a morir, porque van a haber tantos casos de gente siendo estafada, engaña o robada que incluso no van a confiar en posiblemente compañias y eso a los grandes no les va a gustar, ellos no quieren que si platita se vea afectada, aunque en primer lugar no hubieran metido sus roñosos ocicos en ese negocio....
i mean, ai is producing so much co2 that it is probably getting at the level of meat production, so... it is making a real impact on the world, not just on some people's wallets... oh, also ai books exist and they almost killed someone, cuz the prompter thought that making an ai book about mushroom identification would be a good idea
My grandmother taught me to crochet almost 60 years ago. I've noticed in the past couple of y ears that a lot of the published patterns don't work out the way they should, no matter how carefully you work them. My grandmother used to make shopping bags out of plastic store bags that she used to cut into long strips and then crochet. They were super strong.
I recall when fabric manufacturers and sewing factories produced rolls of trimmings that were ideal for crocheting rag rugs without resorting to cutting up and piecing together fabric remnants (new or worn out) to make completely authentic rag rugs. I gave away or sold all the rugs I made as a child (for fun). In recent years, I saw a suggestion for making a similar floor covering out of plastic grocery bags, but there would be no actual absorbency; the (tote) bag application is ideal. I have a wide topped tote bag that a small business made by weaving plastic strips that are produced as a byproduct from some form of manufacturing. It would be stiffish for shopping, but I have used it as a magazine holder in a bathroom, guest towel storage in a bathroom, and catch-all in the bottom of a closet. I had considered crocheting a bag from the plastic shopping bags, but I don't accumulate any; I use the few I acquire at least three times in my household management, at which point they are too worn out (tearing) or dirtied, so I admit to eventually discarding them.
Once I tried that in early 2000 years. And thought it was my own idea.Those plastic crocheted grocery bags. Did not even have internet back then.😂 But nowadays plastic bags are such poor quality and you pay like 50 cent for each. Once I hope to find back all the colorful plastic bags I stashed somewhere or maybe cut up lots of old clothes to just make wash clothes from thin cotton fabric... that way it will scrub too I guess. And you don't need a pattern or any time-consuming nice stitch to do that. Time for "lazy" crochet😅😊 which won't cost a dime and has also practical use. I'm re-learning after braindamage and I notice my stitches aren't always crocheted with continuous tension so that's very frustrating because my perfectionism is still there but no longer are my skills. So thanks for the commenters putting new ideas in my head!!😇🌺 My time of knitting difficult sweaters and socks is over unfortunately but I still have the need to MAKE stuff!! Maybe one day I'll can do something like these rats again. I love them (always had store bought rats hanging on my rear view mirror of car) and if they turn out crooked my cat will surely love them anyway. 😊
@@catreader9733 I wonder if the plastic bags could be used for stuffing in toys and such if you sent them thru the wash first? I think I'd just use them in the center with fiberfill surrounding them to use less fiberfill (it's amazing how much fiberfill it takes to make a firm stuffy). But then, I don't make a lot of stuffies, so I don't know if that would work well enough.
Etsy's AI policy is that it is allowed, but must be disclosed. If they do not share that it is ai, you can and should report it under the "violation of etsy's policies" category. 17:00
It still blows my mind that Etsy would allow AI at all, regardless if listing's disclose it or not. However, I know Etsy has fallen victim to things like dropshipping so I don't know why I'm so surprised 😅
@Ladybug83me Yeah, I doubt the reports do much, if anything. I'm exploring alternatives and looking for independent sites, but they don't always have what I'm looking for.
this is genuinely terrifying for me as a long-time artist and newbie crocheter. the fact that i couldn't feasibly tell some of those images were AI... it's getting harder to spot AI with digital art too. kind of makes me glad that half the time when i look up a pattern i end up going off the rails a bit anyway! thank you so much for this video and for bringing attention to AI crochet and the issues with it!
I was contacted by an AI company that offered to pay me to use my videos in their "AI learning" process, whatever that means. They said my videos would be used to teach the AI how to create realistic patterns and photos... hmm, no thanks. So this tells me this trend is going to keep growing. Buyer beware.
I live in Brazil and I'm so tired of my ig feed FILLED with profiles selling "master classes" or "we have over 300+ patterns", and then it's just ia generated images or straight up stealing other people's videos. Not to mention, AI is pretty new. It's evolving constantly. Who knows what the hell it's gonna be making weeks from now, it will get harder and harder to tell apart D:
One of the best methods I have found for telling if an image is AI, crotchet or otherwise, is to look at the contrast in value (as in light/color) in the image. There will be similar amounts of the extreme dark and extreme light tones in the image. There will also almost always be extreme light and dark tones in the image. Also consider the lighting on the object, if the lighting angles don't make sense it is probably AI. Often these are how I can recognize AI at a glance.
I'm only about halfway through the video, but I just wanna say that we still haven't been able to make a machine of any sort that can physically crochet, not anything more than a chain stitch without it messing up every three stitches or so. So we still have that, no matter what happens with AI. Knitters tho, yikes
I did find a machine "crocheted" accessory over the summer that absolutely stunned me! It was a colorwork headscarf done in fine weight thread that cost about $7. The thing that tips me off that it is machine worked os that there are long threads on the back of the work, much like a blind hem technique in sewing. But there aren't that many of them that reveal the work to be obvious. I bought it just to study and wonder *how* did they do it! I am at this moment hypothesizing it's done with machine embroidery (yarn in the upper, and thread in the bobbin), stitched onto dissolving waste paper and then washed to free the entire piece. But it looks convincingly like crochet. It's still limited to flat pieces, though. For the moment..
There's quite a few caveats on knitting too, they'll never be able to actually tailor a garment, nevermind a seamless sweater/cardigan. All of the machine knit stuff is always made in flat pieces then sewn in, which is exactly why they look frumpy and never sit right.
Here's the problem, if someone thinks something is crocheted, to them it is, and a hell of a lot cheaper than going to an actual crochet artist. Walmart sells "crochet" sweaters for $10, and if the consumer doesn't know the difference, neither will 99% of their friends and family. While crochet is on a high rise, I foresaw people getting burned out and already people I saw who created businesses are saying they can't continue because they can not keep up with demand and their wrists are being destroyed. I hate to say it, but give it another 5-10 years and it will become a dying art again if ai gets anymore advanced and if machinery does everything for cheaper.
I teach composition and literature courses at a community college, and I'm so disheartened by all the AI cheating I see from my students. I'm really worried about the general dumbing down I feel AI is bringing us.
I'm comforted by the fact that AI is incapable of making original art of any sort. It can only copy what it's been trained on. Unfortunately, the casual viewer can't always tell what's original and what's a cheap copy. I work in book publishing, and you can probably imagine we're having a huge problem with AI. And it's not that AI books are somehow sneaking into major publishing houses and diluting the market, but I have to waste so much time sifting through AI cover letters, AI sample writing, AI sample art, AI marketing, AI descriptions, and AI summaries. None of it is good, but it's only because I've studied it that I know what to look for and can filter out the dross. Not everyone has the time to study as carefully as I do. It's definitely affecting indie publishers and self-employed artists more than major industries.
It's depressing but not unexpected that scammers are making their way into less profitable markets. This, short stories, flower seeds, UA-cam shorts. They flood the space and most of the time they make no money. But they also game algorithms so they show up ahead of real products. I think this is what generative slop fans fail to notice. It's not just that artists "need to adapt" it's that this whole system fails consumers.
I made sure to deny instagram the rights to use my pics to train AI when that popped up a few months ago, but it's sad to see that plenty of people didn't do it/ didn't know how to do it Edit: I posted the guide in a new comment, hoping that it will stay up
@@Nichet.Crochet I'm very sorry if my comments look like spam to you. This is the third time I'm answering now😅 Just let me know if the deletion is automated, you have to manually approve my comment or if you deleted it on purpose. Sorry for any inconvenience
@@Sanny0300The deletion is most likely automatic. I feel like about every fifth comment I make disappears (under any UA-cam channel). It happens so often that I've gotten into the habit of, before posting, manually copying every longer comment of mine (into the Google Keep app), so if I notice later my comment has disappeared, I can find it in Keep instead of writing it again, edit it slightly and quickly repost it. English is my second language and sometimes it takes me a really long time to write a comment and UA-cam deleting them is very frustrating.
This is why it is so so important to use AI poisoning software like nightshade on your work. The more AI scrapes the poisoned work the more it ruins the generation of images. This is important for photographers, crocheters, digital artists, sculpters, ceramists etc. The more we can poison the well and have guides like this on how to spot AI the less effective it becomes.
Coca-Cola used AI to make a commercial for Christmas this year. Blumhouse has accusations of using AI to write screenplays for their new and surprisingly bad horror films. I see AI everywhere and I'm sick of businesses sacrificing quality for money. I hope we as a whole can reject AI and refuse to let anyone make money off of it. I don't care what AI is capable of. I will only support real, human art.
as someone who does work in advertising i'm glad that the consensus with people i work with is, at the very least, ai for annoying fiddly tasks is fine but if you use it for final products you will look cheap. like you don't care enough to get actual artists and photographers. also looking for references while crocheting and having to put "-ai" every time is driving me insane so thank you for talking about this 😓
Thank you for talking about this. As someone who is lucky enough to be in the animation industry, it disgusts me when people think AI is suitable as an art form. Art takes time and patience.
"But it takes time and patience to write the prompts out." 🙄Unfortunately a friend of mine is in a crafting group that uses AI and she loves it because it combines the elements she wants in pictures she can decoupage onto things in her house. She is a cheapskate for sure, but she does not know how it hurts real artists.
if it's any comfort, AI is very not cheap for the companies that host the hardware/servers. It's only free now for the hype/to get us used to having it...the way it's used not is not sustainable
No problems with your format here... I agree with your take on the scammers. Remember, every time you experience something done by AI (crochet pattern, photographic images, music, video effects, etc), you're seeing/hearing/reading it at it's current worst state. it's only next step is to get better at whatever it's trying to achieve because it has the luxury of computing power to try, try again...faster than any human could. It's both exciting and scary. I was fooled by your images... at first, I thought I guessed correctly on all, but I suspected there was a trick, too. good job... you got me! Good tips on identifying actual products/patterns on Etsy. I'm a 60-year-old man who's just taken up crochet but have been working with computers all my life, so I'm pretty good at identifying scams. However, I know there are a lot of "less experienced" people trying to get into crochet, and, well, "seeing is believing". You've got to know what you're looking for. Hopefully, Etsy has a good return/refund policy concerning scammers.
eBay is also a good resource for older magazines, especially if you like vintage fashions. I sold a bunch of my old Crochet World mags back in the 2000s and there are still a lot to be found for pretty good prices. Especially in lots.
I've crocheted, and knitted, for 60 years, yes I'm 74. I could not believe that AI is doing this. Although I thought all the the critters had non-realistic elements, and wished there were additional views of them. Worth noting, I've made my own knitting and crochet patterns since the 1970s, top down, and enjoy going to fairs and judging the judges. My biggest problem doing so is quantity of yarn needed, which improved, and is the basis of my stash. AI is strange. I REALLY appreciate this video! Thank you!
As an occasional crocheter, I didn't know that this was happening. Bought patterns in the past that was what it was supposed to be. I use UA-cam to look at what designs I'm looking for and the real artisans are working on the pieces. But now I am not sure to buy patterns at all by other means. The tips you gave us are so useful, and I am so proud that a young man like you were my teacher in this step. Thanks a lot and will be looking at your store.
The most infuriating part is the fact that it was trained on real human work. Btw, there are a few programs now that create a subtle overlay onto images that is basically “poison” for AI, and I think people should start applying them to their photos of their crochet work if possible. I think I remember one of the programs being called Nightshade, I can’t remember the name of the other.
I love your channel so much I just had my appendix taken out and your voice talking about crochet things and rats has distracted me from the pain both before and after surgery so wonderfully thank you
My tip for my sister when she was asking me if an ad she was watching on facebook was AI: I asked her if there's something unsettling about it, like it looks normal, but something about it seems wrong and she can't figure out why or what it is. She confirmed that yes, something about the man in the ad made her feel unsettled. I watched the ad and yes, it was AI generated and really unsettling to watch. It was most noticeable with the man in the ad because he was subtly inconsistent, but not enough for you to notice right away if you don't recognize it as AI. If you see an image or a video and something about it is making you feel unsettled, like something about it just really seems wrong, 9 times out of 10, it's AI. AI just gives this weird, unsettling vibe because your brain can tell, even if you yourself can't. I picked out every single one of those AI crochet photos instantly because they all left me with this weird, disturbed feeling, probably related to that vague, cartoony appearance of the images despite supposedly being a real product. EDIT: Yes, should even point out, even the 'real' ones. Something about them seemed off too, it was just way more subtle and definitely harder to tell. The whale one especially seemed really off and I didn't know why.
How can anybody even be on Facebook when they ban people? They ban conservatives and others who speak the truth, so lots of people can't even use that site.
Every company I notice using an ai ad goes on my never buy from list! Most recently a shampoo ad where I noticed the man in the middle blinked from the bottom of his eyes instead of the top!
I frequently explain it to people as things seeming “too perfect”. If you’re paying attention that level of perfection gives an uncanny valley vibe. When it comes to art, it’s harder. Lots of the time it is mistakes that an artist that skilled wouldn’t make, or strange details that aren’t thought out. If someone’s going to spend 10 hours on a gorgeously rendered watercolor scene, it’s going to make sense because they thought about those details as they did the work.
Too perfect, the yarn had no flaws. The whale had no texture and was too shiny. The cat's bow is super weird, and the fluffy yarn on the dino didn't cover the top part of it's eyes (something I am constantly adjusting on my own amigurumi) Also, what kind of backgrounds..
i find similar issues with recipes with photos that don't match or instruction that won't work. When I report to Facebook that it contains "wrong information" they do nothing.
My comment is against Etsy itself & my experience. I bought and paid for ALOT of crochet patterns- over 300+! Then, all of a sudden, without explanation ir forwarding or ability to communicate with customer service- my account (as a BUYER)- WAS SUSPENDED! So, I've lost all my time and investment because they were not yet downloaded! Just notifying you of a fair warning to others! Thank you for the video f information!
That's crazy! I just started hearing about the random Etsy bans when someone wanted to buy my patterns but felt like they couldn't because they were banned from Etsy... fortunately, I have my own website. I looked into it, and sometimes Etsy is even banning sellers without any warning or explanation! If you weren't able to access your purchases because of it, then I can see it someday becoming a lawsuit.
Yes, a "class-action" lawsuit is what is needed! Big companies know that the "little guy" can't afford a lawyer for their harms! Ty for responding & for the video!
Unfortunately a class action can’t be participated in unless you opted out of arbitration. Otherwise you’re opted in automatically and will likely never be able to participate in a public lawsuit.
This was a very well done video, and much appreciated, thank you. I introduced someone to crochet just the other day and warned him about AI stuff, but suggested he show me things he was going to get off the internet to check if it was fake, I told him it's not too hard to tell... Now I'll have to tell him we're both going to need to start checking using the other methods you suggested. Aside from all the other reasons it's just low and really sucks for it to be used to scam people and rip them off, one that gets to me even more is what it can clearly do to people trying to learn but running into so many bad patterns so easily and thinking that the problem is their ability rather than the scam pattern and giving up and feeling bad about themselves. It seems even more of an insult especially now when (because of more manipulative tactics) it's becoming harder for people to detach from the pull and trap of screens to try something else for a break, something that requires a bit of patience. Scammers and grifters are a low bunch.
Suggestion for the "will it rat": electrical wire? Like the rubber coated kind? Maybe some really thin stuff if that exists. Also love the video. I made one of your mini posms last year as a Christmas gift!
i usually cant keep being focused when watching longer videos like this one, but i could listen to you talk for hours, idk ur channel is just so entertaining to me, thank you!! :D
You’re worried about your first sit down with bulletpoint notes to touch on type of video being messy but I really didn’t think it was. I actually thought you were really clever for the way you had that pop quiz in the beginning, had us watch the video to find out the answers, and then dropped the bomb that they were all AI. And then your story about how you discovered the hyperrealistic ai crochet images followed up with how to detect it as well as why it’s harmful was all organized pretty well. Maybe it wasn’t all in perfect order but I really didn’t have that thought when I finished the video. Overall it’s really good for your first time making a video like this.
I agree with you wholeheartedly! I absolutely love to crochet! And you know, I probably have been scammed myself… for when I purchased a pattern, off of Etsy - I printed it out… and I thought it was me, and I’ve been crocheting since I was a little girl… so, I found it very hard to follow the pattern… stitches that didn’t make sense to create what was in the picture… this is one of my first videos that I’ve watched of you! I’m glad you spoke up, I’m proud you spoke up… I agree with everything you said! It’s shameful… being an artist and a lot of mediums…. It is scary., and it’s not right! New subscriber ! 💯🤍😟🧶
It’s genuinely scary how accurate AI can get to real crochet…. Also, not to brag or anything but I totally called all of them being AI generated >:) (I’m definitely bragging)
This video prompted me to go double check the listings for some crochet patterns I bought recently on Etsy. Turns out the shop uses AI-generated images and possibly also AI-generated patterns. Now I wish I would have paid more attention before purchasing! But I'll definitely be more careful in the future!
my mil sends me ai crochet pieces all of the time. at this point she only sends ai images. I feel too awkward telling her its AI because I dont want her to feel stupid but at the same time I feel like she has such a warped idea about what crochet actually looks like at this point. Thank you so much for this video! Its so informative! glad youtube recommended your channel!
My mother has shown me quite a few AI generated crochet images, AI tattoos, AI fashion, etc. - and I always try to let her down easy by saying while it is pretty, it’s also not real. I think it’s incredibly important to reveal how prominent AI is to the people we love, because otherwise they are much more likely to fall for AI scams. She’s actually been calling out more AI scams online lately because I’ve helped her recognize the signs of AI generation in these images :)
Great video! I had also heard that there being hands in the picture (e.g. the artist holding the final product) can also be an indication that it's real. Hopefully that helps people!
AI is getting better at making hands, so it shouldn't be an end-all be-all, but most models still can't do hands very well, so it _is_ something that can be taken into account
That is so funny you showed that highland cow (the first one you showed).They made so much money with that one and half the reviews mentioned it was ai and that the shop owner could not help them. I bookmarked it to see what would eventually happen. I guess enough people reported it so it got taken down. Then they just uploaded it again, it started gaining traction, then they shut the shop. So they somehow opened another shop with a similar name and they started selling the same pattern again. Then another shop popped up with the same picture and the background changed. I call it the evil cow pattern!
I am part of the team that prevents AI generated images from showing up as products on the handmade-exclusive marketplace Goimagine and I often use something called the ‘Highland Cow Test’ to find offenders! I search the marketplace for highland cows, and when I find ones that look suspicious I dig through the persons listings and make sure they haven’t snuck anything by us. (We constantly watch the newest uploads but sometimes stuff sneaks by.)
Hello, I just started watching your channel and I agree with you. I have been crocheting for 63 years. I learned that seven years old I am now 70 and you could spot an AI or a fake photo of crochet right off the bat if you’re experienced. I have to say you’re a very good crochet or and those hands move so fast my hands don’t move that fast and I’ve been crocheting a long time lol keep up the good work. I already told people that I know to be careful of the AI fraud.
This is the first I've heard of people purposely making and selling AI generated crochet patterns and that's really scary. I never would have considered that this is a thing. I'm new to making toys, even though I've been crocheting since I was a kid (back in the 1900s). So I've been looking for more patterns to try new things I'm glad I came across this video so I can be on the lookout for this AI generated stuff. Now I must subscribe to your channel and then check out your web site for real patterns.
Always remember: Chat GPT is a large language model. Its job is to spit out words that go with the prompt. It can't search anything, it can't generate patterns or code, it can only produce words.
Oh god... I was following the early development of "AI" as it is now... The neural nets... The GANs... "This Person Does Not Exist"... It's like they were developing Jurassic Park, and I was watching them hatch the first of many dinosaurs...
thank you for this video 😭 pinterest lately has been a NIGHTMARE... i had no idea instagram could make even more "realistic" ai images, thank you for bringing this to a wider audience so we know what to be on the lookout for !!!
As a student and artist, ai makes me so mad. One time a girl in one of my classes literally took exactly what I wrote, put it in AI to make it “fancier” and use different/more extravagant words. It was very obvious AND she works for the college now. Im a beginner crocheter as well so your tips on how to notice it are helpful. The way it keeps getting more and more realistic is scary- Wall-e or dystopian sci-fi like :( On another note, AI is difficult to detect through those checkers. My friend who is probably the most diligent student ever got in really big trouble last week because the teacher saw she used a lot of AI in her writing (the teacher did not even believe her!) . So AI is also making student life suck as well :/
5:54 i know some companies on Amazon pay people to write good reviews for their products and I've heard that people can use bots to beef up their reviews as well. I'm no techy so I don't know how it works but these are two ways to generate false positives for fake products
wow... im a digital artist and im glad to hear about how other creatives are affected by the "ai craze" n honestly i was half expecting the twist that all the images shown were gonna be ai but the whale........ my GOOOD!!!! im in disbelief and even if my first thought is to say that we're fcked im trying to remain optimistic and just hope that ai eats itself before it gets any sort of majority in creative fields. honestly its so dissapointing watching ai be used to replace creative jobs n hobbies especially. guh.,.,.,
exactly,, its so disheartening everytime i look up reference images, bc NO MATTER WHAT theres ai images at the top :( trying to remain optimistic too but its hard when every social media you use is infested with ai
This video was great! Definitely something to look out for I was shocked at how good AI has gotten!!! Also I just bought your posum pattern! I am going to make it to go with my brother in law’s Christmas present!
I hate this timeline. Crypto should be nerd money that's actually spent and not a pyramid scheme, Social Media should have Quiet Hour features that help us sleep, and AI should be in our microwaves to make sure our Thanksgiving leftovers have no cold spots, not trying to ruin our creative endeavors. I don't totally reject new tech, I just want the cozy version of technology
This is happening in writing, too. I saw a commercial on a computer game that was a get-rich-quick scheme where you download an _AI_ program, give it a prompt, and it generated literature that it _automatically uploads to Amazon to sell!_ So then you sit back and let the money roll in. This scams writers because the market is glutted, and you would have to slog through thousands of "books" to get to a bona fide story that a writer actually wrote and took years of their lives to write a story that makes sense and have a satisfying ending that ties up loose ends or artfully and logically leaves those ends loose and entices the reader to buy the next book in the series if one appears. But writers get lost in the mountain of AI crap. It's like some editor took their slush pile and threw it on Amazon to get rid of it. Maybe some low-end editor _did_ do that and found these low-quality stories were bought. And they found AI could generate stories from the stuff they dumped on the Internet, and that gave them this idea for the scam. Maybe that person can make money off it. But anyone else might make a dollar in a month, perhaps the same amount a real writer gets but without the work for that paltry sum. The victim never gets the same thousands of dollars the scammer makes or says they make. Both writer and buyer of the scam are left in the cold. I don't think I have to tell you I am outraged on behalf of the writers. The ones who bought into the scam just think they can get rich quick. I'll let them learn their lesson. If they didn't pay anything, it's a much cheaper lesson than I learned from. Artists are getting scammed all over the place, and you don't even have to make artfully-crafted , scripted phone calls or be a porch pirate.
Great video!!! I love watching content about crocheting. Anything crochet, from pattern videos to yarn community drama and even stuff like in this video - where technology intersects crochet. I'm looking forward to watching more from you!
21:55 It would take some time, but for your 'Will It Rat' series you could always find a UA-cam tutorial on how to make your own cordage/rope from tree fiber.
Something to consider with AI like chatgpt: it generates language only. So it will generate the language of a crochet pattern but is not being trained on how crochet patterns work along with what the pattern looks like. Any kind of creativity that takes synthesizing multiple disciplines, like crochet pattern making or spoof song writing, is still a long way off. Current models aren't including sounds or visuals at all. I think for crochet patterns that actually make what the picture shows with good design and color choices, a purpose built AI would probably need to be designed. Similar to how code writing had to specifically be added to chatgpt for it to be able to write code. I think this will make AI crochet patterns be further off than more profitable products like coding and music writing. I don't actually think the issue with AI is that it is making images or writing, it's that it's being implemented in a capitalist way that focuses on making money over human impact. I would love to be able to feed a crochet pattern into an AI and change the size or calculate stitches with a different yarn weight. But instead it's being used to scam and sell. And there's not enough consideration being given to the environmental impacts in GPU manufacturing and electricity use Also I loved this video and am very happy I found your channel 😄
Great Video! I was blown away by the by the quiz. I too thought I could spot the AI generated patterns and now - seeing the 'new' AI patterns - Scary. You put out great tips that I will put into practice when shopping a pattern. Thanks. BTW this is the first of your videos I've scene and will be checking out more.
I saw Elise Rose from the Elise Rose crochet Channel talk about this earlier this year or late last year. She brought up some of the same points in this video, but something else she mentioned is pay attention to the actual pattern itself. A lot of times the math won't make sense. I did notice that in these images, a lot of them looked proportionally incorrect, and the color changes looked a little too jagged.
When you first showed the pics i was kinda hesitating but in the end chose the "correct" options cause i thought surely the ai can't make such realistic looking images (especially due to the backgrounds in the pictures). When you revealed the truth i was shocked 😲
I was commissioned recently to make a Santa grinch and they were so disappointed I couldn't make the AI pattern becauseof all the errors. Thankfully i spotted the errors before starting. I found a different real pattern that they liked. As a non crocheter she had no idea AI crochet was a thing.
I'm almost ready to start selling my amigurumi on etsy, but I've been agonising about the fact my photographs aren't as perfect as those I see on Pinterest. Haha, now I know why. I will embrace my imperfect photographs and plunge ahead. Thanks for bringing up a very important subject
Always support real creators, we can make the differences against fakes if we are informed and careful to support real artists. Watch real people here on UA-cam and go to their stores, don't randomly search anything. I hate this trend of fakers stealing crochet, seen a lot of channels I follow upset over scammers doing this crap. UA-cam and other companies like Etsy need to stamp it out and we as customers should report fakes. As for the cookie image, I've even seen Sony use it on their store, they used an AI image for a tennis game, spotted it because Serena Williams had 6 fingers. Shameful. Edited because YT was a pest today.
Thank you so much for making this video. Now I have something to link when people post on Facebook, "Can I commission anyone to make this" or "where can I find a pattern for this" and the image is obviously AI. I have really struggled to explain to people that this is harmful. It gives people completely unrealistic expectations for what can be achieved. For example, Octopus crochet items with hundreds of suckers on the tentacles. I have pointed out that would take fucking forever for a real crocheter to do. And people will ridicule me for pointing this stuff out! "It's fine they are just using the image for inspiration." No it's not fine! How are you supposed to explain to someone that the AI octopus image they want crocheted would be thousands of dollars to commission if that person thinks a person can crochet a life-size elephant?
I just found your channel and I congratulate you for being and honest and creative artisan. Keep up the good work and let’s keep the fight against de-humanization.
I learned how to crochet six years ago after back surgery. Knitting for about a year. If you are newer to crochet, learn from UA-cam. Everything you need to know about crochet can be found for free! There are plenty of good channels that will specialize in whatever you are interested in. Buy from people you know, it’s a great way to support the hours of time they spend. There’s a ton of copyrighted work out there.
I love Mr. Shredded Cheese! That video was my intro to your channel. :D This video is great -- I'll be sharing it to help people learn how to identify AI patterns. It's very frustrating that this is going on. :(
I have been crocheting for 50 years, since I was 14, and although my specialty is working in complex patterns in fine thread (bed covers, fabric/crochet tablecloths, bed spreads, etc., and yarn bed covers/blankets, I can tell that many ‘crochet’ pieces cannot be made in reality. It looks like we have found one more thing that AI is unable to do. 😊
I know very little about crochet but looking closer at the ears, the overall stitch patterns don't even match on the insides when you'd expect them to be mirror images of each other.
Visit www.nichetcrochet.com to buy REAL crochet patterns and physical plushies!
HOLD UP! I gots an idear... this has nothing to do with AI except you stating "that can't be done". Example: that Super Mario doll? YOU have enough experience in this craft, to create him, as he is. Have the confidence to jump in & try! Yeah, it's gonna take time & loads of patience & pulling up old patterns of other stuff you've made, but ya can. Heck, some parts will have to be made separately & sewed on afterwards. Yet, YOU CAN! Remember, if you record yourself trying, speaking to the camera, frogging & frigging again, you can always watch your video & make a pattern by seeing, exactly what you did in the moment to figure it all out. Then, you can sell your pattern. Just not the Super Mario doll. With him you gotta just sell the paper, pattern & time. Not the image at all. 😂😂😂 Necessity breeds invention. You CAN do anything! ❤❤❤❤❤
Believe it or not, i found a physical, published, real-life book that was chock-full of AI generated patterns and photos. My girlfriends grandmother had bought it to try to learn how to crochet and was getting frustrated that her stuff was never coming out like the photos and was ready to give it up. It was egregious. The book is called 'Crochet for Beginners: The Bible' by Lisa Jones, specifically the 2024 edition. If you can get your hands on it, im sure it would be quite enlightening
Wow that is a perfect example of AI making beginner crocheters feel frustrated!
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There are so many on Amazon, they're getting flooded with them ! It's sometimes hard to find the real ones on some of the pages. I wish it was easier to report AI generated products on Etsy, Amazon etc... I've heard of people purchasing foraging books that were unfortunately generated by AI and ended up being poisoned. The foraging community is trying to warn beginners as much as possible but realistically they just can't warn beginners who never joined the online community in the first place.
There's even AI generated FORAGING HAND GUIDES on Amazon.
This is why you learn from UA-cam SPECIFICALLY
That's where I had my beginnings in crochet, the Crochet UA-camrs are the most thorough and clear in their directions, even in some amigurumi
Hoping that the AI bubble bursts sooner than later, AI generated art sucks for soooo many reasons
Same! I feel so bad for everyone whose career is being affected by it,or will be.
it is not what I wish, but how do we even know it is a bubble that will burst? Like whatever is generated nowadays is just....decent. Or dare I even say, good looking. I am not pro AI, again. But saying it's a bubble that will burst is starting to feel more like a wish than the truth.
There is a decent amount of pushback against ai. I’ve actually not really seen anyone on the Internet say they like it. Plus the energy expenditure to run it is massive, and it’s also slowly taking over more jobs. I don’t know that it will burst, but I certainly hope so
A.I art is a tool, it's the people who misuse it and the laws surrounding it that sucks. Report any fake images you see and fake channels or stores.
@@Coeurlarme The thing is AI is being too expensive to run most AI companies still didn't got any profit and are just bleeding money, because all of them are unicorn companies.
Like it will never disappear 100% but I bet it will be like NFTs, companies drop it after they notice it isn't profitable like they thought it would be
I looked it up and Instagram uses posts to train their ai, so the more people post on instagram the better their ai is going to get. Because of this I have deleted instagram.
🙃 time to put all my insta posts through that program that messes up ai
Yeah as soon as they mentioned the images were created by instagrams ai it made so much sense, there's probably very few other places online with quite as many pictures of peoples crochet. I do wonder if we're able to contaminate their data by at all if we manged to post enough edited photos of our crochet and confuse it about what they should look like?
@@stormy_says Nightshade.
I'm planning to poison my art, crochet, etc. when posting on Insta/FB.
Glaze and Nightshade can protect your images, and won’t change how they look to us, but will confuse the AI
Just watched this while working on a project with your rat pattern (rattern)
Rattern! ❤
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I recently saw a video about how the gardening community is suffering from ai images aswell, mostly to scam people that don't know better. It's such a shame that it seems to be happening everywhere at this point. Grifters gotta grift i guess, but this is getting ridiculous
Foraging, too. A channel I watch ordered a foraging book from Amazon to show that it was AI generated and giving actually physically harmful advice!
@@getaloadofthisguycam Atomic Shrimp by any chance?
I watch Atomic Shrimp.... Great scam awareness videos.
AI is infiltrating everything! I watched a video on FB yesterday looked like real footage of birds sheltering chicks from rain. AI!!!
There have been fake photos in ads for lots of garden items and other things for decades, long before Photoshop or AI were available. I.e.: Fruits and vegetable plants to be planted in pots, trellises, arbors, etc. that were ‘guaranteed’ to produce an inordinate amount of fruits looking incredibly beautiful and perfect, like nothing ever found at grocery stores. All fake.
im happy i found your channel. i hate living in this cyberpunk dystopia. i hate having to tell my parents they got scammed and lied to. i hate being forced to talk to a robot because the cost of being rich is too easy to lay off humans.
i'm specifically an animator, i have not "made it" into the industry, as AI overruns everything i do. im scared. but im comforted by your resilience. thank you for bringing awareness to even the most niche of topics. covid to AI has taught me one thing, we love to consume and take everything for granted
The fact that NONE of those images were real makes me feel sick. I fully agree with your sentiment of "we are removing the humanity from art". Part of why I love crochet and fiber arts is that people are SO creative and share their creativity in some crazy ways, but now my FB crochet groups are becoming people posting an AI image and saying "anyone have this pattern?"
AI is learning from people posting and it's only going to get better. I fell for an AI recipe this afternoon, the recipe sounded fine as a concept but the images were off and the text was so...ChatGPT-y... The fact that we are seeing AI used in BIG company ads (the holiday honda one, the coca cola one, raycon) is so scary. As a retail worker, my specific job cant be over run by AI in the near future but those who are losing work to this stuff breaks my heart
I was watching a video a few weeks ago about how in the very ñear future even influencers are going to be ai. There is a company that influencers/ people can sell their likeness to and it can be used in advertising and for influencers pr posts. All i could think was wgat in the dystopian cyberpunk madness is this. We wont be able to trust anything soon. Honestly there needs to be a creative space online with no ai allowed. Because this mess is annoying. Im getting to the point that id rather use a free pattern than risk using something from some random because at least i wont have wasted that much money yarn can be frogged. But i have a few creators i trust.
Technology was supposed to free us from hard or boring jobs.
Instead, it takes away creative jobs.
Something went wrong 😩.
Yeah, greed. Namely, corporate greed.
Technology was supposed to bring the truth to everyone. Never have conspiracy theories been more rampant. Never has scamming been easier. Since I am 62 I just thank my lucky stars my generation won't have to figure this out. But those coming up behind us grew up with this. May not see the problems. I hope they can figure out how to deal with this.
Not saying I won't try to support the movements to bring some of this under control but holy crap this is all rampant. We couldn't even come together during a pandemic without half the population saying it wasn't real.
Technology doesn’t take creative jobs. It’s the immoral people who misuse the technology to scam people. It’s not AI, it’s people who have always looked for shortcuts to make money. Before this they used software to change images. Thieves and charlatans have always existed. We just need to be smarter. Information like this helps. We need to identify and punish those that misuse these tools.
nothing went wrong, you were just lied to. the goal of technology has always been to reduce and control the population. this is the same group that gave us: evolution, communism, eugenics. those ideas remove the source of creativeness from people and eventually just remove people. according to modern 19th/20th century technocrats everything is going well....and they can't wait to get a nuerolink in your head.
Exactly. AI and Robots are supposed to do the tedious and boring stuff (cleaning, taxes and so on) so we can enjoy creativity, hang around with friends and so on.
OMG... You are like my grandmother. She could watch TV carry on a conversation and crochet all at the same time. I'm so jealous. Ive been crocheting for a long time and still have to tell people don't talk to me I'm counting
Same…I’ve been crocheting since I was a first grader and I cannot talk and crochet at the same time.
@andreavaldez8104 😁
He was going so fast I thought he was knitting at first . And they make me wonder how in the world do they do that . I’m a crocheter and self taught knitter. But I still have to look at what I’m doing or I got a mess . And I’ve been crocheting since I was in my teens and I’m 66 now .
@bartsexton1652 That's me too
People want to act like AI will have no real life consequences, but AI crochet is suck an obvious example showing that is DOES. "Sellers" are popping up all over the place with fake listings of impossible items for super cheap, leading to more and more people being scammed. It's happening with more then just crochet too. Any medium can be faked and sold to unsuspecting buyers. It's getting so advanced in some cases that even if you knew what to look for, you could still be tricked. So if you aren't an artist who thinks AI wont have any affect on you, I think your mind will change when it affects your wallet.
Y estas es una de las razones por las que en algun momento la ia va a morir, porque van a haber tantos casos de gente siendo estafada, engaña o robada que incluso no van a confiar en posiblemente compañias y eso a los grandes no les va a gustar, ellos no quieren que si platita se vea afectada, aunque en primer lugar no hubieran metido sus roñosos ocicos en ese negocio....
It’s also a criminal activity. It’s fraud. People should start holding the buyers and better yet the PLATFORMS responsible.
people have been figuring out how to scam money from people ever since money was created.
i mean, ai is producing so much co2 that it is probably getting at the level of meat production, so... it is making a real impact on the world, not just on some people's wallets... oh, also ai books exist and they almost killed someone, cuz the prompter thought that making an ai book about mushroom identification would be a good idea
My grandmother taught me to crochet almost 60 years ago. I've noticed in the past couple of y ears that a lot of the published patterns don't work out the way they should, no matter how carefully you work them. My grandmother used to make shopping bags out of plastic store bags that she used to cut into long strips and then crochet. They were super strong.
Those are the best bags. They last forever.
I recall when fabric manufacturers and sewing factories produced rolls of trimmings that were ideal for crocheting rag rugs without resorting to cutting up and piecing together fabric remnants (new or worn out) to make completely authentic rag rugs. I gave away or sold all the rugs I made as a child (for fun). In recent years, I saw a suggestion for making a similar floor covering out of plastic grocery bags, but there would be no actual absorbency; the (tote) bag application is ideal. I have a wide topped tote bag that a small business made by weaving plastic strips that are produced as a byproduct from some form of manufacturing. It would be stiffish for shopping, but I have used it as a magazine holder in a bathroom, guest towel storage in a bathroom, and catch-all in the bottom of a closet. I had considered crocheting a bag from the plastic shopping bags, but I don't accumulate any; I use the few I acquire at least three times in my household management, at which point they are too worn out (tearing) or dirtied, so I admit to eventually discarding them.
Once I tried that in early 2000 years. And thought it was my own idea.Those plastic crocheted grocery bags. Did not even have internet back then.😂 But nowadays plastic bags are such poor quality and you pay like 50 cent for each. Once I hope to find back all the colorful plastic bags I stashed somewhere or maybe cut up lots of old clothes to just make wash clothes from thin cotton fabric... that way it will scrub too I guess.
And you don't need a pattern or any time-consuming nice stitch to do that. Time for "lazy" crochet😅😊 which won't cost a dime and has also practical use.
I'm re-learning after braindamage and I notice my stitches aren't always crocheted with continuous tension so that's very frustrating because my perfectionism is still there but no longer are my skills.
So thanks for the commenters putting new ideas in my head!!😇🌺
My time of knitting difficult sweaters and socks is over unfortunately but I still have the need to MAKE stuff!!
Maybe one day I'll can do something like these rats again. I love them (always had store bought rats hanging on my rear view mirror of car) and if they turn out crooked my cat will surely love them anyway. 😊
@@Lafayette19P My grandmother thought it was her own idea. I guess great minds work alike, no?
@@catreader9733 I wonder if the plastic bags could be used for stuffing in toys and such if you sent them thru the wash first? I think I'd just use them in the center with fiberfill surrounding them to use less fiberfill (it's amazing how much fiberfill it takes to make a firm stuffy). But then, I don't make a lot of stuffies, so I don't know if that would work well enough.
Etsy's AI policy is that it is allowed, but must be disclosed. If they do not share that it is ai, you can and should report it under the "violation of etsy's policies" category. 17:00
It still blows my mind that Etsy would allow AI at all, regardless if listing's disclose it or not. However, I know Etsy has fallen victim to things like dropshipping so I don't know why I'm so surprised 😅
Don’t buy from Etsy , I know I Wouldn’t.
Etsy doesn't care . I don't shop on their anymore. So many fakes and non handmade items and their customer service is non existing
@Ladybug83me Yeah, I doubt the reports do much, if anything. I'm exploring alternatives and looking for independent sites, but they don't always have what I'm looking for.
this is genuinely terrifying for me as a long-time artist and newbie crocheter. the fact that i couldn't feasibly tell some of those images were AI... it's getting harder to spot AI with digital art too. kind of makes me glad that half the time when i look up a pattern i end up going off the rails a bit anyway! thank you so much for this video and for bringing attention to AI crochet and the issues with it!
I was contacted by an AI company that offered to pay me to use my videos in their "AI learning" process, whatever that means. They said my videos would be used to teach the AI how to create realistic patterns and photos... hmm, no thanks. So this tells me this trend is going to keep growing. Buyer beware.
I live in Brazil and I'm so tired of my ig feed FILLED with profiles selling "master classes" or "we have over 300+ patterns", and then it's just ia generated images or straight up stealing other people's videos.
Not to mention, AI is pretty new. It's evolving constantly. Who knows what the hell it's gonna be making weeks from now, it will get harder and harder to tell apart D:
One of the best methods I have found for telling if an image is AI, crotchet or otherwise, is to look at the contrast in value (as in light/color) in the image. There will be similar amounts of the extreme dark and extreme light tones in the image. There will also almost always be extreme light and dark tones in the image. Also consider the lighting on the object, if the lighting angles don't make sense it is probably AI. Often these are how I can recognize AI at a glance.
I'm only about halfway through the video, but I just wanna say that we still haven't been able to make a machine of any sort that can physically crochet, not anything more than a chain stitch without it messing up every three stitches or so. So we still have that, no matter what happens with AI. Knitters tho, yikes
Sorry to say but machine crochet is now a thing it is not as good as handmade but can produce exactly the same stitch patterns
I did find a machine "crocheted" accessory over the summer that absolutely stunned me! It was a colorwork headscarf done in fine weight thread that cost about $7. The thing that tips me off that it is machine worked os that there are long threads on the back of the work, much like a blind hem technique in sewing. But there aren't that many of them that reveal the work to be obvious. I bought it just to study and wonder *how* did they do it! I am at this moment hypothesizing it's done with machine embroidery (yarn in the upper, and thread in the bobbin), stitched onto dissolving waste paper and then washed to free the entire piece. But it looks convincingly like crochet. It's still limited to flat pieces, though. For the moment..
@@cuprasurfayeah tldr that’s just embroidery imitating the look of crochet
There's quite a few caveats on knitting too, they'll never be able to actually tailor a garment, nevermind a seamless sweater/cardigan. All of the machine knit stuff is always made in flat pieces then sewn in, which is exactly why they look frumpy and never sit right.
Here's the problem, if someone thinks something is crocheted, to them it is, and a hell of a lot cheaper than going to an actual crochet artist. Walmart sells "crochet" sweaters for $10, and if the consumer doesn't know the difference, neither will 99% of their friends and family. While crochet is on a high rise, I foresaw people getting burned out and already people I saw who created businesses are saying they can't continue because they can not keep up with demand and their wrists are being destroyed. I hate to say it, but give it another 5-10 years and it will become a dying art again if ai gets anymore advanced and if machinery does everything for cheaper.
I teach composition and literature courses at a community college, and I'm so disheartened by all the AI cheating I see from my students. I'm really worried about the general dumbing down I feel AI is bringing us.
This was great commentary on a serious issue; also, I greatly respect the hustle to crochet while passionately discussing crochet
I'm comforted by the fact that AI is incapable of making original art of any sort. It can only copy what it's been trained on. Unfortunately, the casual viewer can't always tell what's original and what's a cheap copy. I work in book publishing, and you can probably imagine we're having a huge problem with AI. And it's not that AI books are somehow sneaking into major publishing houses and diluting the market, but I have to waste so much time sifting through AI cover letters, AI sample writing, AI sample art, AI marketing, AI descriptions, and AI summaries. None of it is good, but it's only because I've studied it that I know what to look for and can filter out the dross. Not everyone has the time to study as carefully as I do. It's definitely affecting indie publishers and self-employed artists more than major industries.
I really want to see those writing examples. Part of me worries I'll accidentally do that.
It's depressing but not unexpected that scammers are making their way into less profitable markets. This, short stories, flower seeds, UA-cam shorts. They flood the space and most of the time they make no money. But they also game algorithms so they show up ahead of real products. I think this is what generative slop fans fail to notice. It's not just that artists "need to adapt" it's that this whole system fails consumers.
I made sure to deny instagram the rights to use my pics to train AI when that popped up a few months ago, but it's sad to see that plenty of people didn't do it/ didn't know how to do it
Edit: I posted the guide in a new comment, hoping that it will stay up
How do we do it ?
@@Nichet.Crochet I'm very sorry if my comments look like spam to you. This is the third time I'm answering now😅
Just let me know if the deletion is automated, you have to manually approve my comment or if you deleted it on purpose.
Sorry for any inconvenience
Also, remember to glaze and nightshade your pictures anyways!
@@Sanny0300UA-cam comments are absolutely broken. It's not the uploader deleting comments, it's out of their control.
@@Sanny0300The deletion is most likely automatic. I feel like about every fifth comment I make disappears (under any UA-cam channel). It happens so often that I've gotten into the habit of, before posting, manually copying every longer comment of mine (into the Google Keep app), so if I notice later my comment has disappeared, I can find it in Keep instead of writing it again, edit it slightly and quickly repost it. English is my second language and sometimes it takes me a really long time to write a comment and UA-cam deleting them is very frustrating.
This is why it is so so important to use AI poisoning software like nightshade on your work. The more AI scrapes the poisoned work the more it ruins the generation of images. This is important for photographers, crocheters, digital artists, sculpters, ceramists etc. The more we can poison the well and have guides like this on how to spot AI the less effective it becomes.
Coca-Cola used AI to make a commercial for Christmas this year. Blumhouse has accusations of using AI to write screenplays for their new and surprisingly bad horror films. I see AI everywhere and I'm sick of businesses sacrificing quality for money. I hope we as a whole can reject AI and refuse to let anyone make money off of it. I don't care what AI is capable of. I will only support real, human art.
I hope we can all reject coca-cola
@@lmelloi have done many years ago i mostly drink water 😂😂
the stuff you make lanyards out of seems like a manageable nightmare to crochet a rat out of
Oooooo, yeah love this idea! The rat would be huge. Lol
GIMP!!!!
Do it!
as someone who does work in advertising i'm glad that the consensus with people i work with is, at the very least, ai for annoying fiddly tasks is fine but if you use it for final products you will look cheap. like you don't care enough to get actual artists and photographers. also looking for references while crocheting and having to put "-ai" every time is driving me insane so thank you for talking about this 😓
The plot twist! Thank you for spreading awareness about this, I really like this video and think you did great!
Thank you for talking about this. As someone who is lucky enough to be in the animation industry, it disgusts me when people think AI is suitable as an art form. Art takes time and patience.
"But it takes time and patience to write the prompts out." 🙄Unfortunately a friend of mine is in a crafting group that uses AI and she loves it because it combines the elements she wants in pictures she can decoupage onto things in her house. She is a cheapskate for sure, but she does not know how it hurts real artists.
if it's any comfort, AI is very not cheap for the companies that host the hardware/servers. It's only free now for the hype/to get us used to having it...the way it's used not is not sustainable
ive been crocheting for a decade now and i also thought i could distinguish between the real and fake plushies
No problems with your format here... I agree with your take on the scammers. Remember, every time you experience something done by AI (crochet pattern, photographic images, music, video effects, etc), you're seeing/hearing/reading it at it's current worst state. it's only next step is to get better at whatever it's trying to achieve because it has the luxury of computing power to try, try again...faster than any human could. It's both exciting and scary. I was fooled by your images... at first, I thought I guessed correctly on all, but I suspected there was a trick, too. good job... you got me!
Good tips on identifying actual products/patterns on Etsy. I'm a 60-year-old man who's just taken up crochet but have been working with computers all my life, so I'm pretty good at identifying scams. However, I know there are a lot of "less experienced" people trying to get into crochet, and, well, "seeing is believing". You've got to know what you're looking for. Hopefully, Etsy has a good return/refund policy concerning scammers.
Your local library will have how to crochet books in their collection.
eBay is also a good resource for older magazines, especially if you like vintage fashions. I sold a bunch of my old Crochet World mags back in the 2000s and there are still a lot to be found for pretty good prices. Especially in lots.
I've crocheted, and knitted, for 60 years, yes I'm 74. I could not believe that AI is doing this. Although I thought all the the critters had non-realistic elements, and wished there were additional views of them. Worth noting, I've made my own knitting and crochet patterns since the 1970s, top down, and enjoy going to fairs and judging the judges. My biggest problem doing so is quantity of yarn needed, which improved, and is the basis of my stash.
AI is strange. I REALLY appreciate this video! Thank you!
As an occasional crocheter, I didn't know that this was happening. Bought patterns in the past that was what it was supposed to be. I use UA-cam to look at what designs I'm looking for and the real artisans are working on the pieces. But now I am not sure to buy patterns at all by other means. The tips you gave us are so useful, and I am so proud that a young man like you were my teacher in this step. Thanks a lot and will be looking at your store.
The most infuriating part is the fact that it was trained on real human work. Btw, there are a few programs now that create a subtle overlay onto images that is basically “poison” for AI, and I think people should start applying them to their photos of their crochet work if possible. I think I remember one of the programs being called Nightshade, I can’t remember the name of the other.
I love your channel so much I just had my appendix taken out and your voice talking about crochet things and rats has distracted me from the pain both before and after surgery so wonderfully thank you
My tip for my sister when she was asking me if an ad she was watching on facebook was AI: I asked her if there's something unsettling about it, like it looks normal, but something about it seems wrong and she can't figure out why or what it is. She confirmed that yes, something about the man in the ad made her feel unsettled. I watched the ad and yes, it was AI generated and really unsettling to watch. It was most noticeable with the man in the ad because he was subtly inconsistent, but not enough for you to notice right away if you don't recognize it as AI.
If you see an image or a video and something about it is making you feel unsettled, like something about it just really seems wrong, 9 times out of 10, it's AI. AI just gives this weird, unsettling vibe because your brain can tell, even if you yourself can't. I picked out every single one of those AI crochet photos instantly because they all left me with this weird, disturbed feeling, probably related to that vague, cartoony appearance of the images despite supposedly being a real product.
EDIT: Yes, should even point out, even the 'real' ones. Something about them seemed off too, it was just way more subtle and definitely harder to tell. The whale one especially seemed really off and I didn't know why.
How can anybody even be on Facebook when they ban people? They ban conservatives and others who speak the truth, so lots of people can't even use that site.
Every company I notice using an ai ad goes on my never buy from list! Most recently a shampoo ad where I noticed the man in the middle blinked from the bottom of his eyes instead of the top!
I frequently explain it to people as things seeming “too perfect”. If you’re paying attention that level of perfection gives an uncanny valley vibe.
When it comes to art, it’s harder. Lots of the time it is mistakes that an artist that skilled wouldn’t make, or strange details that aren’t thought out.
If someone’s going to spend 10 hours on a gorgeously rendered watercolor scene, it’s going to make sense because they thought about those details as they did the work.
AI definitely elicits the Uncanny Valley response.
Too perfect, the yarn had no flaws. The whale had no texture and was too shiny. The cat's bow is super weird, and the fluffy yarn on the dino didn't cover the top part of it's eyes (something I am constantly adjusting on my own amigurumi) Also, what kind of backgrounds..
i find similar issues with recipes with photos that don't match or instruction that won't work. When I report to Facebook that it contains "wrong information" they do nothing.
I always have a queasy feeling with AI images but I was sooo surprised to learn that they were all AI.
My comment is against Etsy itself & my experience. I bought and paid for ALOT of crochet patterns- over 300+! Then, all of a sudden, without explanation ir forwarding or ability to communicate with customer service- my account (as a BUYER)- WAS SUSPENDED! So, I've lost all my time and investment because they were not yet downloaded! Just notifying you of a fair warning to others! Thank you for the video f information!
That's crazy! I just started hearing about the random Etsy bans when someone wanted to buy my patterns but felt like they couldn't because they were banned from Etsy... fortunately, I have my own website. I looked into it, and sometimes Etsy is even banning sellers without any warning or explanation! If you weren't able to access your purchases because of it, then I can see it someday becoming a lawsuit.
Yes, a "class-action" lawsuit is what is needed! Big companies know that the "little guy" can't afford a lawyer for their harms! Ty for responding & for the video!
Unfortunately a class action can’t be participated in unless you opted out of arbitration. Otherwise you’re opted in automatically and will likely never be able to participate in a public lawsuit.
LOVE that this is being talked about more! Thanks!!
This was a very well done video, and much appreciated, thank you. I introduced someone to crochet just the other day and warned him about AI stuff, but suggested he show me things he was going to get off the internet to check if it was fake, I told him it's not too hard to tell... Now I'll have to tell him we're both going to need to start checking using the other methods you suggested.
Aside from all the other reasons it's just low and really sucks for it to be used to scam people and rip them off, one that gets to me even more is what it can clearly do to people trying to learn but running into so many bad patterns so easily and thinking that the problem is their ability rather than the scam pattern and giving up and feeling bad about themselves. It seems even more of an insult especially now when (because of more manipulative tactics) it's becoming harder for people to detach from the pull and trap of screens to try something else for a break, something that requires a bit of patience. Scammers and grifters are a low bunch.
Suggestion for the "will it rat": electrical wire? Like the rubber coated kind? Maybe some really thin stuff if that exists.
Also love the video.
I made one of your mini posms last year as a Christmas gift!
i usually cant keep being focused when watching longer videos like this one, but i could listen to you talk for hours, idk ur channel is just so entertaining to me, thank you!! :D
My rats favorite treat i would give them was spaghetti noodles. you know what to do (I'm sorry)
You’re worried about your first sit down with bulletpoint notes to touch on type of video being messy but I really didn’t think it was. I actually thought you were really clever for the way you had that pop quiz in the beginning, had us watch the video to find out the answers, and then dropped the bomb that they were all AI. And then your story about how you discovered the hyperrealistic ai crochet images followed up with how to detect it as well as why it’s harmful was all organized pretty well. Maybe it wasn’t all in perfect order but I really didn’t have that thought when I finished the video. Overall it’s really good for your first time making a video like this.
I agree with you wholeheartedly! I absolutely love to crochet! And you know, I probably have been scammed myself… for when I purchased a pattern, off of Etsy - I printed it out… and I thought it was me, and I’ve been crocheting since I was a little girl… so, I found it very hard to follow the pattern… stitches that didn’t make sense to create what was in the picture… this is one of my first videos that I’ve watched of you! I’m glad you spoke up, I’m proud you spoke up… I agree with everything you said! It’s shameful… being an artist and a lot of mediums…. It is scary., and it’s not right!
New subscriber !
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It’s genuinely scary how accurate AI can get to real crochet…. Also, not to brag or anything but I totally called all of them being AI generated >:) (I’m definitely bragging)
They just look too perfect and weird in terms of lighting, even if the stitches were accurate
This video prompted me to go double check the listings for some crochet patterns I bought recently on Etsy. Turns out the shop uses AI-generated images and possibly also AI-generated patterns. Now I wish I would have paid more attention before purchasing! But I'll definitely be more careful in the future!
Demand a refund!
my mil sends me ai crochet pieces all of the time. at this point she only sends ai images. I feel too awkward telling her its AI because I dont want her to feel stupid but at the same time I feel like she has such a warped idea about what crochet actually looks like at this point. Thank you so much for this video! Its so informative! glad youtube recommended your channel!
Maybe try a compliment sandwich? Like "oh, that's so cute! Such a shame it's AI generated, I wish it were real!"
My mother has shown me quite a few AI generated crochet images, AI tattoos, AI fashion, etc. - and I always try to let her down easy by saying while it is pretty, it’s also not real. I think it’s incredibly important to reveal how prominent AI is to the people we love, because otherwise they are much more likely to fall for AI scams. She’s actually been calling out more AI scams online lately because I’ve helped her recognize the signs of AI generation in these images :)
I told off my mom about the ai crochet photos she send me. Because the ones she send me was close to be inhumamely impossible.
Great video! I had also heard that there being hands in the picture (e.g. the artist holding the final product) can also be an indication that it's real. Hopefully that helps people!
AI is getting better at making hands, so it shouldn't be an end-all be-all, but most models still can't do hands very well, so it _is_ something that can be taken into account
That is so funny you showed that highland cow (the first one you showed).They made so much money with that one and half the reviews mentioned it was ai and that the shop owner could not help them. I bookmarked it to see what would eventually happen. I guess enough people reported it so it got taken down. Then they just uploaded it again, it started gaining traction, then they shut the shop. So they somehow opened another shop with a similar name and they started selling the same pattern again. Then another shop popped up with the same picture and the background changed. I call it the evil cow pattern!
The evil cow pattern 😭 that's a funny name
I am part of the team that prevents AI generated images from showing up as products on the handmade-exclusive marketplace Goimagine and I often use something called the ‘Highland Cow Test’ to find offenders!
I search the marketplace for highland cows, and when I find ones that look suspicious I dig through the persons listings and make sure they haven’t snuck anything by us. (We constantly watch the newest uploads but sometimes stuff sneaks by.)
Hello, I just started watching your channel and I agree with you. I have been crocheting for 63 years. I learned that seven years old I am now 70 and you could spot an AI or a fake photo of crochet right off the bat if you’re experienced. I have to say you’re a very good crochet or and those hands move so fast my hands don’t move that fast and I’ve been crocheting a long time lol keep up the good work. I already told people that I know to be careful of the AI fraud.
This is the first I've heard of people purposely making and selling AI generated crochet patterns and that's really scary. I never would have considered that this is a thing. I'm new to making toys, even though I've been crocheting since I was a kid (back in the 1900s). So I've been looking for more patterns to try new things I'm glad I came across this video so I can be on the lookout for this AI generated stuff. Now I must subscribe to your channel and then check out your web site for real patterns.
Always remember: Chat GPT is a large language model. Its job is to spit out words that go with the prompt. It can't search anything, it can't generate patterns or code, it can only produce words.
I enjoyed this crochet tea. I'm here for it ☕️ I did spot a few off images searching for a last min gifts, it is concerning you're not wrong there!
Oh god...
I was following the early development of "AI" as it is now...
The neural nets... The GANs... "This Person Does Not Exist"...
It's like they were developing Jurassic Park, and I was watching them hatch the first of many dinosaurs...
"Two more papers" sounds like a threat nowadays...
thank you for this video 😭 pinterest lately has been a NIGHTMARE... i had no idea instagram could make even more "realistic" ai images, thank you for bringing this to a wider audience so we know what to be on the lookout for !!!
Another sad thing is that some AI crochet pattern listings are AI photos with *stolen* free patterns from other websites made by real people. :[
As a student and artist, ai makes me so mad. One time a girl in one of my classes literally took exactly what I wrote, put it in AI to make it “fancier” and use different/more extravagant words. It was very obvious AND she works for the college now. Im a beginner crocheter as well so your tips on how to notice it are helpful. The way it keeps getting more and more realistic is scary- Wall-e or dystopian sci-fi like :(
On another note, AI is difficult to detect through those checkers. My friend who is probably the most diligent student ever got in really big trouble last week because the teacher saw she used a lot of AI in her writing (the teacher did not even believe her!) . So AI is also making student life suck as well :/
5:54 i know some companies on Amazon pay people to write good reviews for their products and I've heard that people can use bots to beef up their reviews as well. I'm no techy so I don't know how it works but these are two ways to generate false positives for fake products
wow... im a digital artist and im glad to hear about how other creatives are affected by the "ai craze" n honestly i was half expecting the twist that all the images shown were gonna be ai but the whale........ my GOOOD!!!! im in disbelief and even if my first thought is to say that we're fcked im trying to remain optimistic and just hope that ai eats itself before it gets any sort of majority in creative fields. honestly its so dissapointing watching ai be used to replace creative jobs n hobbies especially. guh.,.,.,
exactly,, its so disheartening everytime i look up reference images, bc NO MATTER WHAT theres ai images at the top :( trying to remain optimistic too but its hard when every social media you use is infested with ai
Happily just purchased 3 of your wonderful patterns and so happy that i have found your channel! Thanks for the AI/Etsy alert❤
This video was great! Definitely something to look out for I was shocked at how good AI has gotten!!!
Also I just bought your posum pattern! I am going to make it to go with my brother in law’s Christmas present!
Just like ads, you REALLY REALLY REALLY should be obligated to disclose an AI image and they should all be trademarked going forward.
Yes - just like influencers have to disclose sponsorships, it should be a legal requirement to disclose AI content.
Damn the algorithm really sent me here asap
I hate this timeline.
Crypto should be nerd money that's actually spent and not a pyramid scheme, Social Media should have Quiet Hour features that help us sleep, and AI should be in our microwaves to make sure our Thanksgiving leftovers have no cold spots, not trying to ruin our creative endeavors.
I don't totally reject new tech, I just want the cozy version of technology
Great and informative video, 10/10 no notes. You did great and I wouldn't mind seeing more of this type of content from you.
This is happening in writing, too. I saw a commercial on a computer game that was a get-rich-quick scheme where you download an _AI_ program, give it a prompt, and it generated literature that it _automatically uploads to Amazon to sell!_
So then you sit back and let the money roll in.
This scams writers because the market is glutted, and you would have to slog through thousands of "books" to get to a bona fide story that a writer actually wrote and took years of their lives to write a story that makes sense and have a satisfying ending that ties up loose ends or artfully and logically leaves those ends loose and entices the reader to buy the next book in the series if one appears.
But writers get lost in the mountain of AI crap. It's like some editor took their slush pile and threw it on Amazon to get rid of it.
Maybe some low-end editor _did_ do that and found these low-quality stories were bought. And they found AI could generate stories from the stuff they dumped on the Internet, and that gave them this idea for the scam.
Maybe that person can make money off it. But anyone else might make a dollar in a month, perhaps the same amount a real writer gets but without the work for that paltry sum.
The victim never gets the same thousands of dollars the scammer makes or says they make. Both writer and buyer of the scam are left in the cold.
I don't think I have to tell you I am outraged on behalf of the writers.
The ones who bought into the scam just think they can get rich quick. I'll let them learn their lesson. If they didn't pay anything, it's a much cheaper lesson than I learned from.
Artists are getting scammed all over the place, and you don't even have to make artfully-crafted , scripted phone calls or be a porch pirate.
Oh wow. I’m about to start crocheting and I was thinking about buying patterns off Etsy sometime in the future. Thanks so much for the advice
If there is a library near you, checking out a physical crochet book might save you some trouble!
Great video!!! I love watching content about crocheting. Anything crochet, from pattern videos to yarn community drama and even stuff like in this video - where technology intersects crochet. I'm looking forward to watching more from you!
21:55 It would take some time, but for your 'Will It Rat' series you could always find a UA-cam tutorial on how to make your own cordage/rope from tree fiber.
Something to consider with AI like chatgpt: it generates language only. So it will generate the language of a crochet pattern but is not being trained on how crochet patterns work along with what the pattern looks like. Any kind of creativity that takes synthesizing multiple disciplines, like crochet pattern making or spoof song writing, is still a long way off. Current models aren't including sounds or visuals at all. I think for crochet patterns that actually make what the picture shows with good design and color choices, a purpose built AI would probably need to be designed. Similar to how code writing had to specifically be added to chatgpt for it to be able to write code. I think this will make AI crochet patterns be further off than more profitable products like coding and music writing.
I don't actually think the issue with AI is that it is making images or writing, it's that it's being implemented in a capitalist way that focuses on making money over human impact. I would love to be able to feed a crochet pattern into an AI and change the size or calculate stitches with a different yarn weight. But instead it's being used to scam and sell. And there's not enough consideration being given to the environmental impacts in GPU manufacturing and electricity use
Also I loved this video and am very happy I found your channel 😄
Great Video! I was blown away by the by the quiz. I too thought I could spot the AI generated patterns and now - seeing the 'new' AI patterns - Scary. You put out great tips that I will put into practice when shopping a pattern. Thanks. BTW this is the first of your videos I've scene and will be checking out more.
I saw Elise Rose from the Elise Rose crochet Channel talk about this earlier this year or late last year. She brought up some of the same points in this video, but something else she mentioned is pay attention to the actual pattern itself. A lot of times the math won't make sense. I did notice that in these images, a lot of them looked proportionally incorrect, and the color changes looked a little too jagged.
When you said none of them were real I felt so bamboozled. I'm so glad someone is talking about it. It makes me scared honestly. I hate AI so much 8')
I really like this video format! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts
When you first showed the pics i was kinda hesitating but in the end chose the "correct" options cause i thought surely the ai can't make such realistic looking images (especially due to the backgrounds in the pictures). When you revealed the truth i was shocked 😲
I was commissioned recently to make a Santa grinch and they were so disappointed I couldn't make the AI pattern becauseof all the errors. Thankfully i spotted the errors before starting. I found a different real pattern that they liked. As a non crocheter she had no idea AI crochet was a thing.
I don't even crochet and I watched this! I watched this to find out what the AI was doing.
Great job on this video! ❤
I'm almost ready to start selling my amigurumi on etsy, but I've been agonising about the fact my photographs aren't as perfect as those I see on Pinterest. Haha, now I know why. I will embrace my imperfect photographs and plunge ahead. Thanks for bringing up a very important subject
An easy workaround is to link your social media on etsy and on your SM have a video physically moving the piece of crochet work around.
Always support real creators, we can make the differences against fakes if we are informed and careful to support real artists. Watch real people here on UA-cam and go to their stores, don't randomly search anything.
I hate this trend of fakers stealing crochet, seen a lot of channels I follow upset over scammers doing this crap. UA-cam and other companies like Etsy need to stamp it out and we as customers should report fakes.
As for the cookie image, I've even seen Sony use it on their store, they used an AI image for a tennis game, spotted it because Serena Williams had 6 fingers. Shameful.
Edited because YT was a pest today.
I'm so glad I found your channel! Thank you so much for sharing this important information with us! ❤
Thank you for OPENING MY EYES! I had no idea & was so gullible...
Thank you so much for this information!
Thank you so much for making this video. Now I have something to link when people post on Facebook, "Can I commission anyone to make this" or "where can I find a pattern for this" and the image is obviously AI. I have really struggled to explain to people that this is harmful. It gives people completely unrealistic expectations for what can be achieved. For example, Octopus crochet items with hundreds of suckers on the tentacles. I have pointed out that would take fucking forever for a real crocheter to do. And people will ridicule me for pointing this stuff out! "It's fine they are just using the image for inspiration." No it's not fine! How are you supposed to explain to someone that the AI octopus image they want crocheted would be thousands of dollars to commission if that person thinks a person can crochet a life-size elephant?
I just found your channel and I congratulate you for being and honest and creative artisan. Keep up the good work and let’s keep the fight against de-humanization.
Great video! Important information for all artists!!!! ❤
Hey, I really really enjoyed this video! Love adding another crochet creator to my watch rotation:)
AI doesn't understand how 3D works. And right now it can not learn this from internet.
Great video! Thank you!
I never would have guessed this was your first time doing this kind of video. Never point out your mistakes! 😉😊
Gosh, thankyoiu for doing this video. I've been asking for ages how to spot the fakes. I'll certainly be wary now!
such a great video, i hope more people see this!!
I learned how to crochet six years ago after back surgery. Knitting for about a year. If you are newer to crochet, learn from UA-cam. Everything you need to know about crochet can be found for free! There are plenty of good channels that will specialize in whatever you are interested in. Buy from people you know, it’s a great way to support the hours of time they spend. There’s a ton of copyrighted work out there.
I love Mr. Shredded Cheese! That video was my intro to your channel. :D This video is great -- I'll be sharing it to help people learn how to identify AI patterns. It's very frustrating that this is going on. :(
I have been crocheting for 50 years, since I was 14, and although my specialty is working in complex patterns in fine thread (bed covers, fabric/crochet tablecloths, bed spreads, etc., and yarn bed covers/blankets, I can tell that many ‘crochet’ pieces cannot be made in reality. It looks like we have found one more thing that AI is unable to do. 😊
I really like how you explain things. And I love your voice. Thank you for the info.
AI is affecting so many artforms and its so scary
I know very little about crochet but looking closer at the ears, the overall stitch patterns don't even match on the insides when you'd expect them to be mirror images of each other.