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404 Media paywalled blog asks about AI-generated Etsy recipes

Original title: Behind the Blog: Brute Forces

404 Mediaby Samantha Cole ()1 min read1 · 1 read
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The readable text only notes Etsy’s ban on some AI recipes and patterns and asks readers for sources.

404 Media’s Behind the Blog post is mostly behind a membership wall. The visible portion asks whether readers have followed online recipes that turned out to be AI-generated after seeing Etsy ban certain AI-generated recipes and patterns. It does not report a security incident.

Unconfirmed: Whether the Etsy recipe files are scraped from books or generated is unknown to the author.

Key facts
  • Paid members are told the post covers reverse engineering and court documents.
  • The author says bulk Etsy downloads show images that look AI-generated.
  • The author does not know if the recipes are scraped or generated.
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By Samantha Cole · 404media.co

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