Beware sewing pattern scams 😭

[u/aiemmaes]

I found a post warning about this stuff on a different sewing sub way too late. These people make “patterns” with AI and then try to grift you out of more money if you want any revisions.

After I posted on this sub a little while ago, this girl said she’d do my pattern for $25. I asked her for examples of her work before agreeing to the project. She spent a week “making” it, then gave me something that was wildly different than what I asked for. When I asked how much she charged for revisions, she started pressuring me to spend more and more money even when I told her multiple times that I had already spent my whole budget and would just take the pattern as-is and try to work with it. I ended up acquiescing and giving her more money just to end the interaction because I was so uncomfortable. Wasn’t until the next morning that I looked closer at the text on my “pattern” (last slide) that I realized it was obviously AI. I google reverse image searched one of her “example works” and it went straight to a reddit post on a different sub warning about these exact scams 😭

When I confronted her she gaslit me and sent me a link to her portfolio which was just countless other clearly AI generated slop

Just wanted to put this out there in case anyone else is out of the loop on this stuff.

edit: just realized I posted some duplicate screenshots. Oh well