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AI-Designed Phone Cases Are Unexpected
A third-party Amazon merchant named “my_handy_design” was suspected of using a bot to generate cell phone case designs based on the bizarre and unattractive designs being offered.
- Date it happened
- 2017-07-10
- Organisation involved
- my_handy_design
- Product, system or model
- It is suspected that the my-handy-design bot was scraping the web for popular images by search term, and then creating phone cases with those images to sell on Amazon. Each case is probably printed to
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