Setting that aside, Amazon is well known to sell/ship knock offs and not take down offending listings.

Fair, I was sloppy there. The cobra isn't a scam itself, it's just a demonstration that it's already a hard place to navigate what with everything that is going on there. A deluge of AI garbage may not be a "scam" in the strictest sense of the term but it still breaks certain unspoken expectations the Boomer generation has about goods and what exactly it is you are buying.

We have also received a number of shirts where AI has been used to create unlicensed NFL shirts and other such actual frauds. And whatever your feeling about IP laws, it was definitely low quality stuff... looked good if you just glanced at it but when you went to look at any particular detail of the shirt it was AI garbage. (I say "AI garbage" precisely because not all stuff from AI is necessarily garbage... but this was.)

> it still breaks certain unspoken expectations the Boomer generation has about goods and what exactly it is you are buying.

Sigh. I learned from my pre-boomer parents that if the product were any good it wouldn't need to be advertised.

> looked good if you just glanced at it but when you went to look at any particular detail of the shirt it was AI garbage.

To be fair, that was also all over the place before "AI" as currently understood. (And I don't think that previous iterations of machine learning techniques were involved.)