How to Spot FAKE (AI) CROCHET So You DON'T Get SCAMMED

[@Zelah_Meyer]

My trick for recognising AI photos is that they look like the photographer used one of those beauty filters. They all have slightly unnatural lighting and are TOO perfect.

[@margitwes6495]

That is what noticed. They lack any kind of personality,totally bland no matter how bright the colors.

[@chrom0xide123]

Yes, there is always some generated blur somewhere, it doesn‘t look like a blur from a real camera.

[@madisparkles]

I agree! You can always tell there's something slightly off about it. It's not natural

[@peaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

and the colors are usually supersaturated

[@jlt131]

also check the other elements in the photo - like with the bookmark one, the words on the page of the book were not actually words in any language.

[@wildflower-spirit-creations]

I read a statement the other day that AI was supposed to take over our mundane chores so that we had more time for art. Something got screwed.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Oh wow. 🧐

[@QuiltedCupcake]

Yeah ai can do my dishes. I’m all over my art. It’s the dishes that I want help with 😅

[@rylieread1865]

​@@QuiltedCupcake And the laundry! 😭

[@danie4830]

the humans creating and using the technology are what causes these harmful things from happening. There is supposed to be a code of ethics with every use and creation of technology that is to be followed to prevent these things. It's so unfortunate how helpful technology is tainted by bad actors from humans.

[@Knottyautumn]

The only thing AI is going to take over is humanity and life as we know it. No big deal

[@aselle1709]

A.I. is the biggest art heist in history. An A.I. generated image is a collage of all the real images that have ever been uploaded by real artists onto the internet.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Thanks for sharing! 🧶🧶🧶

[@spencerrizzatto8188]

The thing is that that makes it easier to spot. Since it's a mixture of all types of art and images it mixes weirdly. It thinks all hand positions or letters are just a weird mixture of eachother as seen with the text on the bookmark one. It also doesn't know many important common knowledges like number of legs or hands or what even exists. It also has bright colors and strange lighting because it's common knowledge what colors a dog could be or how lighting works so no one says that and the AI never gets that information. It also just makes things up from what it sees and often makes things look way too "perfect" seeming. I hope this helps for anyone who struggles with figuring out AI images from real.

[@dianaquill9969]

For those with young eyes, you can also see that the fake ones look unnaturally clean. No yarn fuzz almost at all, it's just that slight blur.

[@beautifulenigma1724]

That's exactly what I was going to say - the fake ones all gave it away since there was zero fuzz anywhere on it. Even if you went through and tried to trim all of the fuzz off, it still wouldn't look that clean.

[@MrSt8the0bvious]

AI will take this into consideration for the future. AI thanks you.

[@UserName-kn3wv]

Another giveaway I noticed is the background. I noticed that a lot of the AI images in this video have nonsensical backgrounds, walls lit in a way that shouldn’t be possible, or ground shadows without a discernible ground.

[@nikk-named]

yeah, there's always this... weird filter on it. like, the smoothness filter on the smartphone turned up to ten. (plus a weird lighting and/or smirch on the metal part of the clothes hanger)

[@boooo13]

@@MrSt8the0bvious Funny thing is that the blur probably comes from ai trying to correct from the really crisp and sharp lines it would pop out.

[@ambrosia15]

I find that usually, ai generated crochet images have dramatic lighting with really dark shadows and light highlights. It makes the piece look superficially smooth.

[@mxnjones]

Yeah, but someone could very easily Photoshop their project photos to add dramatic lighting effects and smoothness… I’m not sure why they would, though.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Yes it does! 🐳❤️💻🧶

[@nsartain8129]

Thanks. I learned a lot.

[@carolynquigley2287]

Should I be impressed that I picked out the real one in every single comparison, despite watching it on double speed, so I had very little time to look at each picture?

[@niamhfox9559]

The lighting is always so fuzzy and it seems to glow from within.

[@magicalspacegiraffe]

Kinda sad it's people incapable of actually making something scamming people who want to do the actual work of crochet.

[@rae-el-gee]

One thing I've noticed with the AI images is the lighting - they all appear to have been photographed in a professional studio, and none of them have the typical halo you get from yarn either

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Totally agree! 🐳

[@JCFDbabelonia33]

They usually have too smooth of a texture and too much sunlight

[@Carmenisbettertanvile]

Where is the stuff?​@@EliseRoseCrochet

[@localartwitch]

Something I've noticed with AI crochet is how smooth the yarn appears! There's no hairs, little to no stitch definition, and has an overall hyper- photoshopped feel to the image. Great post Elise, and will really help lots of people, beginner or not!

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

You nailed it! 🧶🧐💻🐳

[@tammygant4216]

the hyper photoshopped look is a dead give away (for now)

[@1D4Lifeexxx]

It sort of looks like it was made with plastic at this point tbh

[@GinBunny89]

Yes! Somehow no stitch definition but also perfect definition? I aced the quiz for now but they will only become harder to spot. That's why we need gurus like Elise!

[@Sand-Lind]

Got them all right on your test. Hand-made forever, please !

[@dianasmith8166]

I've been deleting these posts from my feeds when I see them, in hopes of convincing the algorithm governing my feed that I don't want to see AI patterns. Aced your quiz. I like you.

[@Zoldrandomstuff]

Some other tips that are helpful for spotting AI: 1) Notice how the backgrounds in most of the comparison photos were completely smooth, textureless colors, with strange shadows on the top and bottom. 2) Is there any text visible in the "photo"? If so, see if it actually makes sense, or if its just gibberish or simply shapes that look like text out of the corner of your eye. 3) material (from yarn, to clothing, to hair, to skin) will blend seemlessly into other parts -- the Yak has brown head hair merging into its horn; often times hair will turn into clothes, or jewelry. Humans will have strange hands/fingers/wrists but will also have strange teeth, eyes (the business woman has compound eyes), or body shapes. Reflections don't make sense. 4) Colors are unnaturally saturated and bright. 5) plants and animals in the photo are distorted or don't exist. There's more, but once you've seen enough AI-generated content, you get pretty quick at spotting it.

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

Text can be also figured out if the AI throws in random characters from other languages, wrong characters, weird spacing and bad sentence structure. (First one depends on origin. If it’s American imitating anime, it’s probably going to throw in “Japanese” gibberish sometimes.)

[@DoctorZisIN]

Another hint: Look at stitches that are meant to be symmetrical, like the right and left sides of the sweater's collar. Not only they don't match but they don't look like stitches at all, just random bumps

[@Kksaeyi247]

The sunflower bookmark looked too straight for even a professional, almost like there was wiring, but what really threw me off was the book in the photo The words that would be on the same plane of focus as the bookmark were all blurred. And upon closer inspection had a lot of format errors all on just two pages. One or two isn't unheard of but after counting I saw at least 10 on one page from indentation to insane spacing choices and even what looked like a full on word missing in a sentence (after realising how terribly it was trying to imitate english) I first thought, at this point just crop it out and put it on a real book to not get called out so easily (since the truth hurts their feelings it seems). But then I realised, they'd need some basic understanding of art and writing fundamentals to fix these awful mistakes. And AI bros are determined to not actually gain any creative ability outside of typing up prompts into what is essentially a search engine.

[@abnormaloddish]

Yes! The background one is what clues me in the most, if it's in a white void that screams AI to me

[@scoopidyschloop]

for me the text and lighting gives it away

[@wanbon]

A thing to note about a lot of AI models is that they're usually and frequently ENTIRELY based on theft - they pull their knowledge base by skimming blogs and websites. So there's a good chance any AI pattern is taking credit from a human crochter while also utterly mangling it.

[@Ventuswill]

It can only ever mangle patterns because ai works by averaging out a data set the way predictive text works on your phone. It can't ever intentionally produce a functional pattern with the understanding of the physics of stitches. If it does produce a functional pattern it's only because it has enough data to predict which stitches go where, not because it understands why stitches are chosen to go where they do.

[@locurset]

@@Ventuswill The only time it produces anything functional is when a high enough amount of patterns show the same thing. The sphere for the whale's body/head at the start looked perfectly normal, but that's because so many amigurumi whales will start out with a sphere. The AI picked up on it. (Not arguing, just adding on)

[@SirMasi]

Spot-on. It's also a bit like a child trying to play air guitar based on what they've seen on TV, without understanding what the movements actually mean.

[@Ventuswill]

@arson7012 I gotchu, yeah that's the only way it produces "accurate" patterns, by having a large enough data set to average out a passable pattern.

[@roxymcrae4645]

This!! It undermines and screws over people who are passionate and work hard doing what they do😢

[@Flutterhigh444]

Props to people learning how to navigate the internet, especially older folks. I’m proud, it’s really hard right now and I do my best to educate my mom

[@BeantownMrs]

I don't crochet, but this popped up for me. Just posting a comment so this video reaches more people through the algorithm. Whether it's crafting-related or not, it's so important for people to start learning how to recognize AI-generated *anything* versus a real thing.

[@ilovedogs8700]

Same here.

[@SysterYster]

Same!

[@Ninidil]

Thanks for your support🥰

[@CuteFox7339]

Yeah really tho, people are making AI KZbin videos now, with their own faces to 😳

[@phoenixvance6642]

Ive never stumbled into the grandma knitting sphere of youtube before either, yet here i am!

[@kouhai2456]

I'm a digital artist, and I'm painfully aware of how awful AI is for the art community as a whole. It's really interesting looking at other forms of art (especially physical crafts) that are sadly being overrun by AI as well. It really makes me so frustrated to see how far this has gone, and will continue to go. I wish there was a way to make more people who aren't in these communities, understand how detrimental this is to us artists in so many ways. Thank you for your video, and for spreading awareness about this unfortunate circumstance.

[@PyxeledGenesis]

As another digital artist, I truly don't think AI poses a threat. It's still a fairly taboo topic, and adopted by the same people who were obsessed with NFTs a couple years ago..look how that turned out. I think the AI craze will last a few years at most until people get sick of it being marketed to them everywhere and replacing creativity

[@qwertysaurexists]

Honestly I don’t like how Ai has flooded stock image websites! I’ll look up “(insert animal) drawing” and it’ll show me a bunch of Ai garbage!

[@boardcertifiable]

​@@PyxeledGenesis oh sweet summer child.... If big companies had their way, they would push a button to make content and art for the masses and cut out paying an artist. Creativity means nothing to them, only mpney.

[@solsystem1342]

​​@@PyxeledGenesis Yeah, the main issue isn't AI hype bros who think they're artists for typing in a prompt. Instead the issue is setting the standard of allowing people's work to be used without their consent or any payment to train models intended to replace (at least some people's work). It would be like if office jobs collected data for training AI to replace their workers while they were on the job by just quietly slipping it into their contract. It's super gross could (if it continues) become dangerous when we get more widely applicable systems (actually competent self driving cars, desk jobs, service jobs, etc) if one of those fields becomes practical to partially replace humans with automation we're in trouble.

[@Blueberryyymuffin]

Art galleries and other places to submit art are no longer taking digital art submissions because of AI.

[@bethwitschey5046]

Had not really thought too much about fake AI generated crochet!! Other art forms but not crochet! What a world we live in! Received a spam phone call while watching this!!

[@DeadFawn]

One thing I've noticed about AI amigurumi patterns is that it really loves giving things super-realistic eyes and eyelashes.

[@netpunk5890]

I’m not a crochet person, I’m a paper crafter, but I had no idea I would have to look out for scams like this in the craft world. Outrageous.

[@fredesch3158]

I don't know anything about crochet, but I found this video, and it was very interesting. One thing that I found very curious is how similar the problems are between asking AI to generate crochet patterns and code (maybe because both are types of algorithms, and LLMs don't go along very well with anything beyond spoken language). Both of them *seem* to work on a superficial level, but whenever the complexity starts to increase you start to see holes in their logic, they also seem to generate something that is close to what you asked, but not what you asked (e. g. you asked for a whale it gave you a fish), really cool to see these similarities.

[@MsGrockle]

I have called these sorts of posts out on Facebook, but usually get cried down by people who say I am showing hate towards the 'creator'. Jeez

[@K4Z4Y]

But if its AI there is no actual creator, so hate away :)

[@MsGrockle]

@@K4Z4Y :)

[@cinnasauria]

A lot of comments on AI-generated posts are themselves also AI-generated and that's a huge reason they're so uncritically positive. The bot problem is pretty bad.

[@ZenaHerbert]

This has happened to me too. People ask for the pattern. I say, there is no pattern because it's AI image. They go, Booo! Hiss!!

[@vonKasa]

facebook is just an ai cesspool at this point 😭

[@stealcase]

Hey Elise, I saw this video with my girlfriend. I am an artist and activist who advocates for AI regulation that respects privacy and Copyright, because right now all AI uses images and personal data scraped from the web to train these models, with no respect to users. And it seems primarily to serve scammers and people who want to masquerade as the real thing. Your advice is great and using your platform to raise awareness is amazing and appreciated. 👏🏻

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Thank you so much for sharing!! It's something I'm trying to educate myself about! And when I learn something I love to share it! ❤️❤️❤️

[@ShoshiPlatypus]

I have just posted a comment about the dangers of AI in the art world and didn't mention this important point that you made about copyright. It is a real concern, and it is undermining the work of real professional artists who are finding it increasingly difficult to make a living doing art the proper way. People's original creations should be protected against the piracy of AI. Thanks for pointing this out!

[@KDfromMI]

I am of the opinion that nearly all generative AI is plagiarism

[@locurset]

Yes! Debating with ai bros about it is exhausting because they will go up and down the ends of the earth to argue that actually it's totally okay to steal art for generative AI because it's "just like taking inspiration from another artist." And scammers using it to fool people and steal their money is actually totally okay because that's how the world works and it's the buyer's fault. I can't believe it's a controversial opinion that blatant art theft is bad and scammers should get sued for their actions.

[@TheLugiaSong]

I don't think it's possible. For one, there is the argument to be made that their usage of these images are transformative, therefore avoiding copyright. Secondly, it's coming to a point where anyone can build their own model so you can't even put regulations to it anyway because it can be untracable. How do you suppose regulations are put on open-source software whose copies exist an undefined, unknowable amount? I don't think it's possible. Rather, we need to adapt to how it is now which I don't see as being anything other than acceptance. A bleak reality for sure.

[@kimsanchez3195]

Thank you for encouragement. I have knitted and crocheted on and off for 59 of my 69 years. When you mentioned the AI patterns not being correct and blaming ourselves for not getting it right. OMG i have bought patterns for sweaters from Etsy from youtubers but can’t do the gauge because there doesn’tseem to be enough chains to get the 1st row done. Now instead of blaming myself and quitting I am looking for a different pattern. Just found your youtube channel this morning, watched a couple of videos and subscribed. Thank you for great content.

[@couchpotato4944]

Something else ive noticed with ai generated patterns is the background is one colour, very smooth and has a sorta cinematic, high quality studio effect to it, which is very rare for real patterns.

[@annbrookens945]

This was my criterion for recognizing real vs AI! The examples with background clutter, etc. were the real ones!

[@Cara.314]

to be fair. that's only generic ai art that she showed, you can spend a fair bit of time with these tools and make images that are realistic af.

[@snowiiiiie]

and if there is something in the background, then it's usually messed up bc whoever wrote the prompt didn't pay enough attention to it (example: the bookmark and the mess that is that "text" in the ai book lol)

[@chickensalad3535]

@@Cara.314Most scammers won’t take the time to do that, even if it’s technically possible.

[@DJruslan4ic]

They also look a bit cartoony with the highlights and the clarity

[@CraftyVegan]

Another tip off for me is the “yarn to marzipan” progression. It always seems like somewhere in the “finished product” there’s a transition from “yarn” to what looks like marzipan candy.

[@yuriyoung5673]

😂

[@velvety2006]

yea some look like they are actually just cakes with a crocheted/knitted look

[@Ventuswill]

Yes! I was comparing them to fimo clay but marzipan is a much better description of what it looks like!

[@SkyBlueDesign1]

@CraftyVegan Now I don't know what to think about my associations 😅, because those weird stitches reminded me of fungus. Or squished pasta noodles at best. Marzipan is a very nice description of those creepy formations 😂.

[@SkyBlueDesign1]

10:15 This one is the creepiest - watch it in the app and zoom in 5x 😳😅

[@veronicafrick9612]

I once saw a thumbnail for a video, and there was a lady standing next to a huge "crochet" lion. I thought it was real at first, but after watching this, I realized it was AI. You've given me some great tips! Thanks a lot! ❤❤

[@dorismitchell5937]

I really don't like AI "crochet" images for all of the reasons you addressed in this video, but also because non crocheters might think that this is what real crochet looks like and think that they can buy a finished project that looks just like the image they found.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Very good point! 🧶❤️🐳💻

[@redmoonvenus7327]

You are right ! Not fair to good crocheters who can never achieve as good a "perfect studio photograph" of their finished work, as the pics of these AI créations 😢

[@aliciagomezpastor9844]

Exactly. I friend asked me to make a purse with a little mermaid. I said that that was an AI generated image and that I could do it but the end product wouldn't look like it.

[@kinseylise8595]

As a beginner, it's also super misleading! I've been knitting for a long time and was always told crochet would let me do little detailed work so I should learn to crochet if I want to make stuffed animals. Here I am with nieces on the way learning to crochet, and I feel so uncertain about where I should look for patterns or who to trust since it's not a community or skill I know well. I don't really know what is or isn't possible so while I can tell that a knitting idea is ridiculous, I can't tell the same about crochet yet. I'm grateful that more experienced people are talking about this kind of thing so I'm even aware of the problem at all!

[@sarahr8311]

​@@kinseylise8595 you might already know about it, since you're a knitter, but I've had good luck with patterns on Ravelry. There's lots of free ones, and I haven't seen any that look super AI fishy so far.

[@jenniferwong4530]

I'm 59 and have been crocheting for over 40 years. I love the art of crochet and it breaks my heart that dishonest people are polluting the internet with fake images and patterns.

[@GaiaBD]

I see a lot of shops advertising garments as "crochet" when I can see that actually it is machine knit or something else entirely.

[@aleahmacnelly7317]

​@@GaiaBD Or they'll have a description like "knit crochet" 🤣🤣🤣 something about that is not adding up!

[@dragon.beanie]

Another thing I've noticed that really helps is that Al images are usually really good quality, and that the yarn doesn't tend to have fuzz

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Good point! 🧶🧶

[@Axolotl_gamess]

@@EliseRoseCrochetyeah and the lighting looks werid

[@saddlerrye6725]

The background of the AI images is also always super clean, and it's oftentimes just a simple monochrome "room". Even clothes hangers tend to be hanged onto nothing, they just float in the perfectly even background colour, casting aesthetically pleasing high contrast shadows.

[@max_ishere]

Oooooo, the not attached hanger. That's a good one. But also you can just use fishing line to do the same.

[@carahindes4341]

The 'too smooth' look of the AI stitches makes me immediately think of those plastic lacing weaving/plaiting projects we used to do as kids

[@TerezatheTeacher]

Saw one on FB, lots of admirative comments. One person in the background was levitating and another had no head.

[@rhythmandblues_alibi]

The comments were probably all bots. It's becoming surreal. Fake content made by programs with other programs commenting on it. We live in a strange world.

[@rhythmandblues_alibi]

The comments were probably all bots. It's becoming surreal. Fake content made by programs with other programs commenting on it. We live in a strange world.

[@nomadiavan6560]

🤣😂😅🤣

[@JishinimaTidehoshi]

comments are made by AI and bots too. Internet is dead

[@redxross]

🤣

[@oakstrong1]

It's not just scammers selling patterns, they also steal your private details when you click that link to a website that leads nowhere that has crochet patterns for sale... they post a picture of a beautiful work, and give you a link to the "free pattern" they had followed.

[@Cara.314]

not much has changed, they used to just steal the image from someone else to get you to click their link, now they just use AI to make the pretty image.

[@hanasladka7213]

Tak za toto video moc moc děkuji. Já také vášnivě háčkuji a nad těmito obrázky jsem žasla a zkoumala, jak je to vyráběné. Až jsem měla vztek že na to nemohu přijít. A vy jste mi otevřela oči, že je to generováno AI.

[@janet9585]

I got scammed with the highland cow pattern but did not realize it was an AI pattern. I left a harsh review but it was never posted. Thank you for this information.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

That's the problem. They are taking down the reviews so no one sees them. It really is frustrating! 🧶🧐💻🐳

[@KM-pm6qe]

@@EliseRoseCrochet If Etsy is letting sellers take down non-malicious negative reviews, Etsy deserves to be criticized, and probably sued.

[@margueritewaters7758]

I also bought the highland cow pattern, it is very badly written and in the difficult places there are no pictures to help so I'm wondering if it also was AI generated.

[@janet9585]

I am sure it is AI generated. It was so frustrating.

[@annbrookens945]

The picture of the finished project was so darn cute I'm not surprised a lot of people bought the pattern

[@emilyr2836]

Oh wow that whale pattern managed to somehow be both better and worse than I expected at the same time!

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Lol!!!! My son said he was cute!! 🐳🤣🧶

[@dramdarmody7239]

It had me laughing out loud XD At the same time it is kinda cute!

[@anthropomorphicpeanut6160]

I kind of love her lol

[@watsername]

It's a mess but trying it's best 😂 I actually kinda like it too even though 100% not a whale!

[@kathyoneill2218]

It's a cute fishie

[@xaview]

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I hope it spreads awareness. Small creators have next to no chance against AI and bots like theses. Our most efficent weapon is to educate and be united.

[@sarahfitzgerald1470]

I got scammed last year on Etsy and I had not realized it was an AI pattern until this video. Thanks for sharing!

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Oh no!!! That really stinks! 🐳💻🧐🧶

[@roxannesantos8918]

Be sure yo go back and give it a poor rating on the reviews so others see it!!

[@wayIess]

Report it to Etsy if it's still up as a listing.

[@fruity4820]

At this point etsy is mostly a marked-up version of AliExpress, I feel so sorry for any actual creator that is trying to make a living off an Etsy shop because when I started shopping on Etsy I thought "I can finally buy stuff without feeling bad about the environment or the Qol of the workers that made them!" but then 9 out of every 10 items you are browsing though are scams and low-quality-definitely-not-handmade crap

[@Cara.314]

now imagine if etsy didnt exists because nobody buys or sells art, it's given away for free. and people didn't need to make a profit off their work to survive. this is the actual prospect of AI in the future, AI and Automation makes us have enough free time and resources to make stuff for fun and give it away as gifts.

[@damagedpages676]

You just accidentally taught me how to read patterns and I have finally managed to follow a written pattern and make my first amigurumi (I make wearables) thank you!!

[@BobaBraceletsbyEllie]

lol

[@sillybillylylyll]

Good job!!

[@DJruslan4ic]

Well, two birds with one stone

[@paulavester5616]

This is great, thank you. It is frustrating when friends send me these AI photos thinking that they are real, but they don't crochet so they don't realize what it really means.

[@cerwelt]

Thanks for using your platform to warn folks. I’m amazed at how many people look at AI generated crochet photos and think it’s real.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

I hope it helps people to be able to spot them better! 🐳💻🧶

[@aksez2u]

I think because it all came on so fast. One day there's no AI and the next, it's flooding our feeds. Now that people know what AI can do and what fake projects look like, they will be much more wary. Just wait for the next wave of AI, though, where they've figured out how to make it look even more realistic. Very creepy. I think we need to pass legislation FAST that all AI generated images and text needs to be watermarked.

[@ShintogaDeathAngel]

The first AI crochet picture I saw, I did think was real, but I had no idea it was A Thing and looking again after it was pointed out, I did begin to see it wasn’t real. It still worries me on various levels, though.

[@kalinka5333]

I once saw a series of AI crochet pictures on instagram. The account was not trying to scam anyone, it even said in the corner of the pictures and in the image description that this was an AI artist account and that these pictures were created with AI. Still, most comments were asking for the patterns or praising the artist for their crochet skills. I totally understand that most people don't know what is possible in crochet, but no one was even skeptical about the surreal images ...

[@Xx_D4RK_K1N_xX]

It’s prob cause not everyone is ust to it being fake? For us we do since we know it exists while others don’t

[@bbsamazon]

AI pictures of crocheted items are TOO STINKING PERFECT!!

[@noctoi]

Yep, ditto with cake decorating. I ended up leaving a facebook group a while ago because I was getting flamed into bedrock my *actual cake decorators* for saying a minutely detailed giant disney castle cake was AI. I mean aside from the groom/prince having 3 legs, there's just no way that any kind of confection - even modelling chocolate or toffee - would hold it's own weight when it's that fine and intricate.

[@Pneumonoultramicroscopicsillys]

Minus the fact they all look overly photoshopped or like 3d models its still pretty hard to tell if you're not looking or haven't seen a ton of ai images before

[@niinatakkula4851]

Thank you so much for rising this subject up! I didn't realize that all those new gorgeous photos in pinterest are fake, I just thought wow, someone could make something like that too. From now on I definitely will check, if the photo looks like really made by hands, by a person.

[@BarryPiper]

I have no interest in crochet but KZbin recommended this to me so I watched it and just want to say this is the same problem I've been having for years with content farms like 5-minute crafts et al. Lots of crappy content that looks like it *could* be legit, and people end up wasting their time or even hurting themselves when they try to copy it. I feel your pain.

[@kathrose336]

i might be a knitter and not a crocheter but ive been avoiding this problem lately by only buying/using patterns from physical books or directly from people’s websites and not through a third party like etsy. edit: i also recommend using/looking for patterns direct from big yarn companies like patons etc. those are definitely not gojng to be fake and they can have huge variety of patterns as well!

[@Grace-ms7un]

I love the old stuff. I just got a batch of pattern booklets from the 80s and 90s

[@margitwes6495]

Good thing I didn't throw out my old magazines from the 80's and 40's. I need to take better care of them they are a bit worn.

[@KathyPrendergast-cu5ci]

I’m both a knitter and crocheter and I mostly get around the problem by hardly ever using patterns at all.😂

[@red.maned.unicorn]

@@margitwes6495If you have access to a scanner, consider making digital copies before the physical copies get too worn!

[@sckanersfofolle]

I am a newbie, I simply follow what the (usually) youtube Lady tells me to do 😅

[@cowbearrie]

something that i noticed is how smooth, shiny and saturated everything is. also like the contrast was turned up high as hell.

[@pilotracoon80]

Something that those images have in common is the type of lightning in the photograph. It`s always this soft light with a soft shadow but then the definition in the stitches is absolute, which doesn't make sense with that kind of light.

[@tokiikane9118]

I'm actually glad you used your platform to talk about this. I see a lot of older folks who are so vulnerable on the internet to this kind of Ai junk.

[@AlphaGarg]

I love how you not only debunk the AI patterns, but also forward people towards real ones, both yours and otherwise. I really appreciate that! As artists, we have to support one another, especially in the face of all this.. well, pardon my french, bullshit.

[@ClaRock]

I saw a discussion topic in a Facebook group concerning an AI image. A guest argued that it was enough to know how to use a crochet to reproduce it exactly the same. Thanks for proving that it's impossible.

[@ZenaHerbert]

One can produce something very similar - I'm thinking of the myriad cushions and bags - but it takes an imaginative and experienced worker to do it. Even so, the super slick, unreal dimensions are very difficult to capture. I would add, ask yourself if that exquisite toddler dress is wearable. Would the weight of the flowers/characters all around the hemline pull down the skirt? Would those rounded roses stay plump and how?

[@patbrain913]

I saw some of these patterns , and thought I was so useless, could never do them. Thank you !!!!!! Now I know I am not stupid. Mind you , £10 for a pattern, would have broken my heart and the bank.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Oh my goodness!! That breaks my heart!! No one can make those projects!! 🧶🧶🧶

[@snomberry]

Never crocheted in my life, but this is a beautifully put-together video that succinctly both describes and demonstrates the issues with AI and how to spot it. I really like your video style and your projects are absolutely adorable! I’m glad you got recommended to me

[@Bonnatella]

I started noticing about a month or so back I started getting a lot of recommendations for channels that are just AI knit and crochet design compilations, that are clearly not real in any way! It's just the beginning of all of this.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

I agree with you. It's just the beginning. 🧶🧶🧶

[@Knottyautumn]

Yep, which is why cyber security is becoming more and more needed every day

[@Nezumi_Yasu]

i think i saw that one to. go back and report and block it.

[@evaguthridge2160]

I've been seeing some weird and obvious fake items on youtube

[@siliconsulfide8]

@@evaguthridge2160 youtube ads are definitely not to be trusted, I'm getting a lot of Temu ads lately haha

[@flutesalute]

I find one of the big giveaways for the AI images to be the empty backgrounds with soft shadows. Not all of them do this, but it's common in these types of generated images

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Yes! Good point! ❤️💻🐳🧶

[@Spikythespikeball]

0:14 I'm just going to yoink that for a character design

[@keeponslaying]

SAME LOWKEY I NEED THAT😭😭

[@Fraaanzyyy]

Hey Elise, thank you so much for the video. I myself got "scammed" by an AI pattern not so long ago. Did a little duck and realized it has to be fake, when the feet were just way too big. Luckily it was a free pattern so it wasn't that big of a deal. But one thing I realized is, that especially amigurumi images look just way too clean. They always have these perfect circles and the yarn just never looks fuzzy. And also the light in the AI patterns always looks kinda off. It's just sad that people are out there thinking the problem is themselves so they may quit. Much love ❤

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

I'm sorry that happened to you! And you're right the AI projects are a little too perfect. It breaks my heart to think people will think they are the problem! 🧶🧐🐳💻

[@SkyBlueDesign1]

It's very sad. There were so many free patterns on the internet and now they're all spoiled, because one would no longer be able to tell which one is real and which one is AI generated. Obviously one can tell from the image if being educated, but there are going to be many AI generated patterns combined with (stolen) photos of real projects.

[@coraljones537]

The whale you made was so cute! he deserves all the love and support 😂🥺 Also i really appreciate that you didn't set the AI pattern up for failure and used your own common sense but also didn't completely change it to just make it work. Very well done!

[@susanjane4784]

KZbin dished this one up for me and I'm happy to have such a good demonstration on AI fakes. I do not crochet due to arthritis (once upon a time I did). What is both good and strange is my perfect score. I looked at shadows as well as designs that just cut off without any distortion. Your narration also helped a lot, teaching what to look for and what is possible. Errors in patterns and recipes are odd since any reputable creator will have others test their efforts before publishing. Most will know 3 Tablespoons of baking soda for a cake is wrong,. But someone in a hurry or a beginner might fail to notice something like 1-1/2 T vs 1-1/2 t in another recipe.

[@Pasteliihaya]

Whether it’s “crochet”, “art”, or “pictures”, If it looks unsettling or too perfect, it’s AI

[@lisilotti2625]

One good indicator is when the stitches don't seem to be connected. For example in the penguin picture you can see that the stitches sit in the right place (offset half a stitch in every row) but they only sit on top, the strand of yarn that goes into the stitch in the row below is missing.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Very good observation! 🧶❤️💻🐳

[@aqira2yoo486]

From an artist to another artist, its nice to see a different field/part of the community discussing this issue!! I only see this problem commonly discussed in the illustration side of art... Commenting to hopefully help in algorithm

[@AshleyBromiley]

Telling the fake ones apart is so easy. I don't know anything about crochet, but it's all in the lighting! Most of them have a blank background with really fancy lighting and it just looks too smooth and perfect to be real. It's like how you used to be able to spot when something was photoshopped when it was really new. It just looks way over-retouched.

[@purplelily7764]

I’m especially worried for the younger and older groups who are particularly vulnerable to these types of scams.

[@zusjesvanlimburg]

Thank you so much for taking your time and show us those things, in such respectful and realistic way.

[@amateurprogrammer25]

One dead giveaway for a lot of the AI images is a plain white background. All of the real images are photographed on some sort of set -- the shawl is draped over a mannequin (and you can see the texture on the wall behind it), the little frog was photographed in front of a plant, the penguin in the final quiz was put in front of a set with lollipops and christmas decorations in the background -- but all of the AI ones (except for the frog) are just a penguin or birthday hat or clothing item on a brown hangar (the same brown hangar every time!) sitting in a textureless white void. Midjourney knows what it likes to generate, and after a while you get used to spotting it. (btw, the generators do like to switch it up a bit -- don't assume that everything on a brown hangar is AI generated, or any clothing item that isn't, isn't. always take it in context. look for really messed up crochet in places that should have a pattern -- the V-neck on the shawl at 15:28 is particularly egregious. another dead giveaway for that one in particular is some messed up bits around the hook of the hangar)

[@discoj7112]

Also AI background generation is very simple to do if an AI seller uses multiple AI tools for their image instead of just one. Of course, that does require an AI seller to not be lazy, and if they weren't lazy why would they be making AI listings in the first place?

[@emilyrasputin]

The issue with this is that often, things like online shopping listings will have blank, bright backgrounds because they've edited out the real backdrop or taken the photo in a studio on a white background. The plain backgrounds definitely give you a hint but can't tell you if it's AI

[@amateurprogrammer25]

@@emilyrasputin Thank you for pointing this out. By the very nature of AI image generators being programmed to try to generate output indistinguishable from their training data, *there is no foolproof surefire way* to tell an AI image apart from a non-AI one at a glance. This is why software designed to detect AI images (often using another, smaller AI model to do so) doesn't work very well. All you can do is check for a number of little details which together tell you something is probably AI. Once you see an image with one of the "tells" people often tell you to look for, like a plain white background, look closely at it and see if you can spot one of the "smoking guns" like impossible blobby crochet, or (in an image with people in it) someone's torso not being connected to their legs, before you go to the comments and say it's AI.

[@elizabethscott785]

To date, there are no machines that can replicate the type of crochet that we do by hand. This makes crochet unique.

[@bbsamazon]

Absolutely!

[@barbaramay1866]

This is all new to me. I have seen lately some of the most fantastic, absolutely perfect, crazy-beautiful pictures of crocheted items that looked a little “off,” but never realized they could be AI generated images! Thank you very much for this. After listening to your message, I guessed every one of the images correctly. Poor Mr. Whale 🐳. I had to laugh at how he came out. The crooks get into everything! Thanks again, Elise.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

They really do! 😅

[@anngladstone9130]

A friend from a FB moms group I know posted a picture a few days ago of an amazing octopus snuggy, asking if anyone could please make it for her. My first thought was, just the yarn would cost $$$. So I went searching around on Ravelry and Etsy to see if I could find the pattern (or something similar) and what it would take. There was nothing that came close. So I dug into the comments and found a bunch of AI references, including the random human body parts that were in the pics. I didn't realize this type of thing is now a big scam, so thank you for posting this!

[@caimanthechimera679]

This randomly appeared for me, and even though I don’t crochet myself, I still think it’s very important to teach people stuff like this in general. You’re doing the lord’s work my friend and I hope you have a great day.

[@hakincart]

I had no idea. I often see crochet projects that make me feel like such an amateur (which I’m not). Relieved when I learned they are fake! Thanks for the video ❤

[@Fairy_Golden_Dust]

its the lighting that expose it for me tbh , and the bg is usually very similar , plus really the image be looking off , but tysm for posting this video for the people who don't know..!

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Yes! I think AI is going to get better at making them look more realistic and that's going to make it tougher for us all! 🧶💻🐳🧐

[@Fairy_Golden_Dust]

@@EliseRoseCrochet yeah , that sounds dangerous ngl TvT

[@theMermaidRhonda]

I just posted an article on this on my FB page the other day and I said the exact same thing you did...that a new crocheter might give up thinking it's them and not the pattern! I'm going to share your video on my page, as well. Hopefully all us real crocheters can keep others from getting scammed. Thanks Elise! 🌻

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Thank you so much! That really is my biggest concern, beginners thinking the problem is them. 🧶🧐💻🐳

[@phylvalen9991]

What a absolutely fantastic video thanks so much! I'm a self taught crochet amateur but love it and have been disturbed by the proliferation of the fake crochet posts on Facebook and I feel for the folks being scammed. I'm 67 and on the farm I only have Facebook and KZbin and spend my days explaining zoom in, no individual recognizable crochet stitches etc lol. You video is great thanks so much!

[@hongjoongsfluffyhat]

Real talk though, I unironically love the little whale!! I think maybe part of the reason AI generated crochet patterns are so wonky is because the AI software takes snippets of several different patterns all over the internet and just mashes them together in a way that makes zero sense. Also I think ChatGPT gave you a dolphin fin for the top because it can't tell the difference. Love your videos and all the great work you do for the knit and crochet community!!

[@loulouchondigau3556]

Something that help me to identify AI is shadows, they look way to smooth on AI images, and sometimes, they don't even exist

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Good point! 🧶🧐🐳💻

[@sunnydays07]

As an illustrator as well as a crocheter, I always look for where parts of the image start to merge with each other, as there is usually a bit of that often in hair, eyes or with repetitive patterns, including stitches. It’s a dead giveaway every time, I think.

[@Angie-yw3ki]

Thank you for this video. I am from a generation where we struggle with what’s happening in technology and take things at face value. Your video, is so informative. You are right about being put off crocheting as unfortunately I have experienced this.

[@DawnDavidson]

Fascinating. I’m not a crocheter, but my mom (and aunt, and daughter) were. I got all of them right at a quick glance. Someone else here mentions the high contrast shadows, and that’s definitely a part of it. Another thing mentioned in comments in the lack of any “fuzz” to the yarn. It’s too smooth and perfect. Put this together with the tips from the video and it’s pretty easy to spot. That “whale” was hilarious. That would probably be my outcome with a REAL pattern! 😂 I think it looks more like a fish with a big dorsal fin. Which isn’t necessarily the worst, but certainly is NOT what the photo shows! Thanks for showing people what to look for in our increasingly fake internet world!

[@dalesample8611]

This is so topical. AI is invading all parts of our lives. I did pretty good on the guessing the real projects, but didn't get the penguin right. Thanks, Elise.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

That one was really hard! 🐳🧶🐧❤️

[@cynthiaowens6301]

I have got to say a HUGE thank you! I had no idea this has been, and is, going on! No wonder so many crochet patterns I try just don't work. And, yes, I thought it was me. I am now a subscriber. Thank you!

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

You are so welcome! ❤️

[@ellebastonart]

That "nailed it" whale is my new sleep paralysis demon 😂 I'm still a total beginner at crochet so I'm really proud of myself that I was able to tell pretty quickly which images were real and which were fake during the quiz, I got all of them right! (⁠づ⁠｡⁠◕⁠‿⁠‿⁠◕⁠｡⁠)⁠づ

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

That's wonderful!!!! 🤣🧶💻🧐🐳

[@theMermaidRhonda]

YAY! So happy you found this video! AI has really become an issue over on etsy and I'd hate to see a new crocheter get scammed. Good job on spotting the fakes!

[@mxnjones]

I’m a beginner too…i think the one that fooled me the most was that penguin. So cute!

[@ali_b_lush2]

"sleep paralysis demon" 💀😂

[@bunnysue6660]

I find it amazing that people can't see the difference. The photos just look why too perfect.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

I can see why beginners and those who haven't heard about AI images are tricked. I remember when the Batman grannies first came out and I thought they were real. 🤣

[@beth12svist]

I think some people also simply don't have the ability to distinguish details in photos very well. Like I can often easily recognise photos where someone changed colours because that inevitably results in less colour depth. But I found out through various instances including an online test for the very thing, somewhere, that I'm very good at distinguishing minor differences in colour hues. So when they're not there, or when they're _too perfectly smooth_ as they often are in AI images, it rubs me the wrong way. Other people don't have the same level of distinguishing capability - much like some people have, say, perfect musical hearing and I don't.

[@ShankarSivarajan]

Have you heard of something called the "toupée fallacy"?

[@pel1155cdVc0p]

Thanks so much for this information. As someone who’s been crocheting for over 50 years, it never occurred to me that some of the photos were artificially generated. I had saved a number of the amigurumi photos in Pinterest to review at a later date. I finally got around to purchasing the patterns on Etsy and found, like a number of others, that the pattern associated with the picture looked nothing like the one I had saved. I did see a few comments warning that the seller was scamming us, as some people had purchased the pattern with disappointing results. I also tried to find the “designer’s” websites with little luck. I will certainly be looking more closely at the photos in future.😮

[@stephanielaakson8960]

Good Morning! Thank you for a clear conversation about AI. Tuula Maaria also has an alert out there about a nonsense pattern from chatgpt. You girls rock!! Have a fabulous today, Steph

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Thank you for sharing!! She has an amazing channel! 🐳🧐💻🧶

[@mediabunny4016]

Thank you for highlighting this problem! I'm really getting fed up with being shown what look like AI crochet images on my social media feeds, l do close them but they come back... It's horrible that there are so many scammers out there flooding the market with junk and making it harder for real crafters.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Exactly!! I'm seeing more and more of the AI images on Facebook especially. 🧶💻🧐🐳

[@kristysmith858]

It’s become literally unmanageable how many scammers there are right now. This has been the worst I’ve ever seen. Literally I can’t trust anything anymore. I have problems I need help with and can’t trust any thing I pull up. I’ll open a website thinking it’s real I put it in on bbbs (better business bureau)website and everyone almost is not bbb accreted. This is scary and I already been scammed for the first time in my life 3 times now this year

[@BigBadWolframio]

It's so important to teach those who don't know how to spot AI how to recognise these scams. Thank you!

[@judypowell5607]

Oh dear, if it wasn't bad enough when I started crocheting 40 years ago and got a poorly written pattern by humans' poor writing skills now we have to deal with computers trying to do what they're terrible at and NOT doing what they ARE good at (editing). Sheeesh. I just hope this doesn't end up putting people off crochet beause they think it's ALL fake. Thank you for this very important message and I hope it gets pushed to the top of all the searches on KZbin for crochet because there's nothing worse than seeing somebody else getting the expected results when they don't know that you have defective tools (i.e. the pattern). BTW I love your nail polish color. Who makes it?

[@sueholt451]

For the quiz, I got all of them right because they all have similar backgrounds

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Awesome! 👏

[@itspixel2841]

This is also a trick for telling AI apart, if there's items in the background but none of them are actually recognizable upon closer inspection

[@SkyBlueDesign1]

​@@itspixel2841Like 15:44 - the bookmarks - I'm watching this video in the app so I was able to zoom in and the text in the book on the right is super funny 😀

[@fireincarnation2348]

That will change over time.

[@dieSchreckschraube]

Like some other commenters, I don't crochet (but do other crafts) and I'm just commenting for the algorithm. Keep up the grear work, Elise.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Thank you so much! ❤️❤️❤️

[@denisefortier7769]

Hi Elize, Thank you so much for alerting crafters and artists to the “little stinky buggers”😂 and the people who think it is ethical to scam people. Crochet patterns are just the latest faze. For years I have been frustrated by Stained glass patterns, created in computer drawing programs, that to a trained artist are obviously not made with actual manufactured glass, or cut and assembled by the ordinary tools shown in the pattern. Once again, the true harm is that the crafter who tries to create this “dream project” is doomed to disappointment, lost money on the pattern and the supplies, and worst of all, the belief that they are failures and they give up on themselves! I started crocheting “fantastic beasts” over 50 years ago as “spirit animal” gifts for friends. Some of them are still cherished keepsakes! Keep up the good work!

[@susangibson9123]

I find it very easy to spot AI generated crochet patterns. First of all they’re just too perfect. They also have that strange hue about them.

[@Nylak-Otter]

Yeah, all the ones she showed here as examples were extremely obvious, and all I know about crochet is that it probably involves yarn. 😂

[@priyankasawant405]

Thanks a lot for this video. Sometimes, I was so fascinated looking at those fancy crochet projects. Since I'm a beginner, I tried a lot to find a step by step tutorial videos for the same, and I didn't find any. Now I know why 😅. This was an eye-opener for me to realize that not everything on the internet is real. Once again, thank you ❤

[@Jaminux]

another tip that works best on a computer: right-click the image, click "open image in new tab", and put your mouse over the name of the tab that it just gave you. it will tell you the name of the image and what kind of file it is. if it ends in ".webp", there's a chance that it's ai-generated because this is the kind of file that's often given to you by ai image generators. you can also save the image and look at the details. this works on mobile as well; on most phones, i think you can go to your gallery, press the picture, and press an icon that has a little "i" inside of a circle. this tip is a bit more technical than the others, but it can help if you don't trust your intuition, especially whenever ai starts to improve.

[@ShoshiPlatypus]

This is excellent advice. We need to be aware of as many ways as possible of identifying this dreadful scam. I want no part in AI in any walk of life, thanks very much. It's extremely dangerous, and set to get a lot, lot worse. Time to wake up, folks, and not go along with it. Resistance is not futile.

[@sunidollfun]

A lot of websites use .webp images these days. I don't think this is unique to AI.

[@Jaminux]

@@sunidollfun you're right; ai-generated images can be uploaded as pngs or jpgs, and non-ai images can be webp files. this tip is more for social media use and meant to be used in tandem with the other tips in the video. i didn't mean to suggest that webp files are a surefire sign of ai-generated content.

[@beth12svist]

It's the case of, as said in the video, each of these things on its own isn't necessarily a red flag, but if you spot more of them at once, you should be very suspicious. Thanks for the tip.

[@Fox_d0g1232]

Another tip for spotting any ai image is to look at the lighting. It always looks a little *too* perfect. Its also usually pretty harsh lighting as well.

[@SherryBrubakerPollock]

Thanks for sharing this info, @EliseRoseCrochet. In all my years of knitting and crocheting, I never thought to question whether a project was AI-generated or not. I've seen enough staged photos, particularly of food dishes in cookbooks, that the lighting, vignettes, and backgrounds in the AI images didn't cause me to suspect they were fake or enhanced. Now I can't wait to share this info with my friends who regularly forward project ideas to me because I'm fairly certain they don't know about this either. 🤯

[@spiderside3892]

I feel like for me the biggest tell for ai crochet is the stitch definition. so many ai "photos" have this greasy smear or are slightly out of focus and you cant see the stitch definition, or if you try to look hard at the stitches, they don't make sense. that was the case for me for the frog toy, as the stitches on the arms don't look quite right

[@plugOutletflowey]

ai generally also makes the background unnaturally blurred, heavily highlighted lighting, and VERY vivid colors, etc., etc. they just look too perfect, which is true for ALL ai generated images. this is literally the strategy i used throughout the entire quiz, no jokes.

[@circesgrandmainomaha580]

Thank you for this video!!!!! Commenting for the algo: I have crocheted for over 50 years, and I was looking at some of the images and patterns and thinking the kids (anyone under 40) were really being innovative and creative and I just couldn't keep up lol. But, looks like a lot of what I was looking at is AI, which makes much more sense since more than a few things looked nearly impossible to do. Thanks again for identifying the issue and providing examples. :)

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

It's crazy how AI is changing things! 🧶

[@OnlyLT]

This is a very informative video- especially for beginners. Recently, my daughter found a crocheted cartoon character who my grandson LOVES & she said, "Mom, can you make this for him?" I'm an advanced crocheter and I could tell by the stitch definition, it was an AI generated photo. And when I looked at the pattern price !!! I KNEW it was a scam. I sent your video to her, just to explain it well & she was so surprised. SO helpful !!! Thanks for posting. 😉🌼💚

[@Shoddyer1]

Same thing with recipes. I will be using all my old crochet pattern books and magazines!!

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

With recipes too!?!?! Why am I surprised! 😮

[@zirconium2014]

Yeah the AI recipes and pictures are insane.

[@PredictableEnigma]

I got fooled by an AI recipie for the first time. I didn't realize until I was partway through making it when it said to save part of one of the ingredients for later and then it never was mentioned again. Now I search for recipies on KZbin instead of google so that it's easier to tell if a real person is behind it or not

[@SkyBlueDesign1]

Are all free instructions on anything all over the internet going to be spoiled by having the AI generated nonsense mixed among them? 😧😧😧

[@fortytwocrayons3485]

Oh wow. I never even thought about this. 😅

[@emijuman1397]

Wow!!! I am so glad I stumbled on your video about this topic!!! I had no idea the reach of AI. I am an adult and thought that I would have very little interference in my life regarding AI. Obviously I have been proven wrong. This video is fantastic! I loved how you made an AI project to show us your point. The tests at the end were so interesting. Thank you, I intend to avoid all AI produced patterns like the plague!

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

Thank you so much! 🧶🧶🧶

[@sherylwright5705]

This is a very timely video, thanks. As an experienced crocheter and knitter, it is sad that so many people are not aware, or not experienced enough to see the difference and are getting scammed. One of my favourite AI knitting images is a group of women knitting. They look like they are having a marvelous time, except many of them have way too many fingers, or not enough and one poor soul has a dpn through her hand...lol! Your little AI whale turned into a shark. He turned out rather cute in his own way, but oh how frustrating for a beginner to have the same issues and think it was their fault for not being able to follow the pattern correctly.

[@EliseRoseCrochet]

lol!! A DPN in the hand would be a very painful situation!!! 😂

[@MatildaBoström-f5k]

Great video! Fell in to the Cow-crochet-scam trap, but luckily found a REAL PATTERN!!!! I have reported and left bad reviews for the etsy seller that are selling the AI crap. LOTS OF LOVE for those making REAL crochet patterns!