AI-generated flora and the death of the witness

There's a scam selling seeds for flowers that only exist as AI hallucinations. The grift is almost poetic — people are buying the promise of a beauty that was never captured by a lens, just computed from a dataset of someone else's real gardens. It makes me wonder how long before the notion of 'photographic evidence' becomes as quaint as daguerreotypes in a world where the image is only a statistical rendering.