@piquant00 The ad is offensive, but I didn't mean to offend by asking about it. It's just that it seems to plague our websites here.

If you've seen the evil garlic ad, you'd know, simply from the mention of garlic and the horror.

So if you have seen it, can you confirm?

I'm going to pin this thread and basically try to pinpoint how far it has spread. Maybe it's only being served in Denmark or in Europe. Maybe it's global. I'm not sure.

I know it's a weird request. If you happen to know how we could stop it from showing up, I would appreciate that.

Hi #CoSo Web Sleuths! Can you help me track down the spread and perhaps the origins of what we've gotten to know at home as the "evil garlic ad"?
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BACKGROUND
This ad is very gross so I won't share an image and ask that no one does on this thread. My husband is most repulsed by it, though I also find it upsetting. It's so bad that he has stopped visiting certain news sites or any websites he used to reguarly visit because it pops up.

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@NIUPEOPLESCHAMP I am in the same boat, after years of living here. I can read it. I can write, though not gramatically. I can mostly understand what people are saying to me, though sometimes here in the countryside it can be hard. But I only speak very little and frankly most people prefer when I don't. 😆

@DarksideStraxus And even with all that it's mostly a fail. I asked an AI to generate images of a man turning into a wolf (for a lark), and this is what I got:

@DarksideStraxus It is non-stop pilfering of real artists' signature style, and copyright violations. Otherwise, it's a complete mess. I can't see how it's going to play out, but there should be a class action suit for IP theft somewhere in the pipeline.

@see_the_sus She is beautiful!

@CMNnews What could possibly go wrong? Oh, yeah. When Musky automated vehicles, people died. We give too much power to people whose only talent is hoarding wealth at any cost.

@ThePsyOfLife 100% agree.

@MissCourtney It's the tower of Babel at this point, and I expect the same result will come from it.

@NIUPEOPLESCHAMP You have my eternal respect for trying.

Happy Saturday #CoSos! Good morning to those rising with me and good night to those going to bed. I hope your weekend is restful.

So, I joined Hive, had a lot of fun with the bookish romance author and reader community over there for a couple of days and then the whole place crashed. I don't think romance bookhive did it.

By the way, this is why I cannot with the bird site anymore: