Ai Fraud Comes for Handwork

I stumbled across this article about Ai-generated craft books today.

https://www.404media.co/bobbin-tatting-lace-ai-generated-books/

The focus of the article is on bobbin lace but I've heard there are stumpwork books that are Ai rip-offs now.  It's only a matter of time before this hits needlepoint.

Why is this a problem?  It's two-fold.  Most of these books are geared toward beginners who are given bad information.  And the people selling these books are unscrupulous; they are pretending to have knowledge they do not have.  They are using Ai to throw together books that often violate copyright to make cash without any thought for the person buying a book that's a fraud.

These Ai-generated books do a disservice to us all.  Keep an eye out for them and warn your stitching buddies when you stumble across one. Use social media and needlepoint websites and your favorite shop to find good books through personal recommendations from actual needlepointers.

Together we can keep this sort of thing at a minimum.  

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow 

Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com

and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com

© Copyright December 27, 2024 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

Columbus Trade Show and Twitter News

This morning I experimented with Twitter, setting up an account for myself and then finding Amy Bunger's and Needle Nook of La Jolla's Twitter accounts so I could set them up as "friends" and "follow" them. There is a gadget that I can post here that shows my account updates and I did so, then removed it. I didn't like the look or the fact that I have to be signed into my account to display 'tweets' here. The security is rather lax as far as I can tell. Don't want people sending Twitter messages in my name! Janet Perry has a Twitter account and so do a few shops I'm not familiar with.

I'll just watch what happens in Twitterland and report if it is pertinent. I can say folks are enchanted by SharonG's new horses' ass canvases.... LOL (Ho Ho Ho is above. There's a floral group of horses and a graphic blue and gold set, too.) You can see all three rear end canvases on SharonG's blog.
http://sharongneedlepointdesigner.blogspot.com/2009/06/ct35-is-newer-canvas-that-now-has.html

Margaret has already told me there is a Twitter for photos, which I could also look for, but I think I'll draw the line. A lot of needlepoint designers also use Facebook (SharonG and Jody Valentine are there) but I am not sure I want to explore that, either. There is just so much time every day!

In Market News, Chandail Needlework has reported on some of the things they have seen at the Columbus trade show.
http://blog.chandailneedlework.com/2009/06/14/market-june-2009.aspx?ref=rss

Ruth Schmuff has added more information about what she is seeing at the trade show. She talks trends and mentions the Sirens canvases from Leigh I was dying to know more about are six different mermaids. They are all on a beautiful blue canvas background. Can't wait to see them as well as the new small Guadalajara ornaments.
http://www.tistheseason.org/blog/2009/06/columbus-day-2.html

Just learned that Carole Lake's Glitzy Accessories class is available as a charted booklet. What fun!
http://www.nordicneedle.com/PROD/1514.html

Finally, Needlepoint.com (a shop in Raleigh, NC) hasn't posted about the trade show yet but they promise to, and their blog is so much fun to read that I am posting the address here.
http://www.needlepoint.com/blog/

Jane/Chilly Hollow
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Tweets from Columbus

The trade show in Columbus has started and news is starting to appear. I'm collecting what I can find from designer and shop websites. So far the big news is that Amy Bunger and her staff are posting news on her Twitter account about the show. I personally would find it very difficult to confine my messages to so few characters!

You can follow the Tweets on Amy's website if you don't have a Twitter account. The latest message is on top, just like here at Blog.
http://www.amybunger.com/twitter.html

We've already seen that SharonG can make even a painted canvas of a horse's ass look great in her new items on her blog.
http://sharongneedlepointdesigner.blogspot.com/2009/06/ct35-is-newer-canvas-that-now-has.html

There are lots of new designs and stitch guides on Melissa Shirley's What's New section of her website.
http://www.melissashirleydesigns.com/gallery/?bsn=1

Ruth Schmuff has new artists in her line of painted canvases and shows them off here.
http://www.tistheseason.org/ptdproducts.php?catid=216

And here.
http://www.tistheseason.org/whatsNew.php

I have a spy at the show who has promised to write a report for us, so stay tuned for that. As other things start appearing on the WWW, I'll keep you informed. After all, there are probably new tools, new designers, new canvases, new threads and new charts we really do "need." Fortunately, Ruth Schmuff is blogging about her adventures in Columbus. Here's the first posting.
http://www.tistheseason.org/blog/2009/06/were-in-columbus.html

Hugs from the Master Enabler,
Jane/Chilly Hollow
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