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DURING THE WEEK a man named Russell Jurney was perusing the phone case selection of Amazon and spotted some really weird phone covers.
What appears to have happened, is that someone set up a store on Amazon that sells phone covers which features designs that a bot randomly pulls from an unknown source of stock photos and automatically generates a product page and price.
The Verge noticed recurring themes throughout the phone case designs: medical procedures, drugs, beauty treatments and DIY (as in, photos of plumbers fixing taps).
Here are some of the funniest ones that were generated:
1. A printer phone case. Ideal for when you’re at home missing your place of work.
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Amazon
2. This case that is perfect to bring to your waxing appointment to make the beautician feel uncomfortable.
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Amazon
3. This racy ‘Cheese wheel on bady instead of table’
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Amazon
There’s nothing more erotic than putting a cheese wheel on someone’s bady instead of table.
4. Why not get a photograph of a skin condition put on your phone case?
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Amazon
5. There is a phone case for every occasion you could possibly imagine.
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Amazon
This stock photo model has no idea that someone could have paid $24 to have this photo of her on their phone.
6. A gift for that special someone you know that just got diagnosed with gout.
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Amazon
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7. A ‘vaginal discomfort’ phone case for that iPhone 6 that you spent €800 on
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Amazon
8. Or why not get this 5-star rated phone cover that features a photograph of a buttplug
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Amazon
9. Unfortunately, this tap one is all sold out.
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Amazon
10. There’s no reason why this stock photo ever should have been taken
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11. A Kylie Jenner phone case
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Amazon
12. This photo of someone applying hand sanitiser that appears to have been taken on a 2 megapixel camera phone from 2008
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Amazon
13. There’s something for everyone: a girls ear
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Amazon
14. Senior man with kickboard. This looks like a Lana Del Rey video.
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Amazon
15. Old woman with asthma inhaler
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Amazon
16. If you’re lonely, at least you could get an attractive young couple hugging each other for your phone
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Amazon
There were also some downright disgusting phone cases that had photos of toenail fungus, ingrown toenails with dressings hanging off of them and plenty of feet in lots of cringe-y scenarios.
Some people were also annoyed that the bot unknowingly made phone cases that depicted heroin use, so it looks like Amazon pulled a lot of the cases from the site. Never forget Artificial Intelligence Phone Case Gate 2017.
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Tuesday 19 November, 2024
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The best phone cases that were produced when an Artificial Intelligence bot on Amazon went a bit mad
DURING THE WEEK a man named Russell Jurney was perusing the phone case selection of Amazon and spotted some really weird phone covers.
What appears to have happened, is that someone set up a store on Amazon that sells phone covers which features designs that a bot randomly pulls from an unknown source of stock photos and automatically generates a product page and price.
The Verge noticed recurring themes throughout the phone case designs: medical procedures, drugs, beauty treatments and DIY (as in, photos of plumbers fixing taps).
Here are some of the funniest ones that were generated:
1. A printer phone case. Ideal for when you’re at home missing your place of work.
2. This case that is perfect to bring to your waxing appointment to make the beautician feel uncomfortable.
3. This racy ‘Cheese wheel on bady instead of table’
There’s nothing more erotic than putting a cheese wheel on someone’s bady instead of table.
4. Why not get a photograph of a skin condition put on your phone case?
5. There is a phone case for every occasion you could possibly imagine.
This stock photo model has no idea that someone could have paid $24 to have this photo of her on their phone.
6. A gift for that special someone you know that just got diagnosed with gout.
7. A ‘vaginal discomfort’ phone case for that iPhone 6 that you spent €800 on
8. Or why not get this 5-star rated phone cover that features a photograph of a buttplug
9. Unfortunately, this tap one is all sold out.
10. There’s no reason why this stock photo ever should have been taken
11. A Kylie Jenner phone case
12. This photo of someone applying hand sanitiser that appears to have been taken on a 2 megapixel camera phone from 2008
13. There’s something for everyone: a girls ear
14. Senior man with kickboard. This looks like a Lana Del Rey video.
15. Old woman with asthma inhaler
16. If you’re lonely, at least you could get an attractive young couple hugging each other for your phone
There were also some downright disgusting phone cases that had photos of toenail fungus, ingrown toenails with dressings hanging off of them and plenty of feet in lots of cringe-y scenarios.
Some people were also annoyed that the bot unknowingly made phone cases that depicted heroin use, so it looks like Amazon pulled a lot of the cases from the site. Never forget Artificial Intelligence Phone Case Gate 2017.
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