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‘Brutal’: thousands of T-shirt designs stolen and listed on Temu, Sydney label claims
Warwick Levy, who runs Lonely Kids Club, says AI may have been used to scrape his entire website and replicate designs Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast After 15 years running a small business making T-shirts, Warwick Levy says it was “brutal” when he first discovered an identical design for sale on Temu. It turned out there was an overwhelming amount of T-shirts identical to his own for sale on the Chinese e-commerce marketplace. Between 2025 and earlier this year, Levy, 37, found thousands of rip-offs. Continue reading...
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Warwick Levy, who runs Lonely Kids Club, says AI may have been used to scrape his entire website and replicate designs Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast After 15 years running a small business making T-shirts, Warwick Levy says it was “brutal” when he first discovered an identical design for sale on Temu. It turned out there was an overwhelming amount of T-shirts identical to his own for sale on the Chinese e-commerce marketplace. Between 2025 and earlier this year, Levy, 37, found thousands of rip-offs. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘Brutal’: thousands of T-shirt designs stolen and listed on Temu, Sydney label claims, Warwick Levy, who runs Lonely Kids Club, says AI may have been used to scrape his entire website and replicate designs Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast After 15 years running a small business making T-shirts, Warwick Levy says it was “brutal” when he first discovered an identical design for sale on Temu. It turned out there was an overwhelming amount of T-shirts identical to his own for sale on the Chinese e-commerce marketplace. Between 2025 and earlier this year, Levy, 37, found thousands of rip-offs. Continue reading…
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