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Bizarre AI-generated products are in stores. Here’s how to avoid them.

AI-generated coloring books, plant guides and home goods are filling online stores as sellers try to make a quick buck

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An image of an open coloring book showing two pages. One page is a woman's face, but her hand disappears into her neck. On the other, a woman grips a flower, but her fingers are twice as long as normal.
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There’s something off about the black-and-white drawings in “Floral Whispers: Coloring Book for Women.”

At first glance, the book is just 26 pages of beautiful women with impressive bone structure, surrounded by or covered in flowers. But look closer and you’ll see that some don’t have the right number of fingers, or the fingers are elongated to create spooky alien hands.

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