Annie from Tennessee has just gone viral on TikTok for sharing a coloring book she claimed she had bought from Chinese online marketplace Temu.

The book, titledCurious Kitty’s Adventurescomes with a cover showing a cat sitting in a room filled with flowers and a medieval village outside the window — it seemed like a perfect choice for unwinding after a long day.

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Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

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This woman, for example, thought she ordered a cute coloring book from Temu

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

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I got a coloring book on Temu and some markers because I’ve been liking coloring a lot lately. And here’s the cover.

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

And the back. Cute, right?

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

And when she got to the coloring part, things kept getting weirder and weirder

And then we got the first page…

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

What’s that? Is that his foot or his tail? I don’t know.

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Um, I’m not sure what’s happening there.

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Okay, so a couple weird ones.

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

That one’s mostly normal. It’s got some lumps.

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

What’s going on with that?

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Okay. What’s happening with that cat? The backgrounds are all normal. Flower pots and landscapes.

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

I don’t even know what that is. What’s going on over here? And that’s the thing from SpongeBob that wants chocolate.

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Okay, that’s the most normal one I’ve seen. It has; I don’t know what’s going on; okay, maybe it’s not.

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Wow, wow, wow. And the floor is, wow.

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Okay, these ones are pretty; never mind. These are okay.

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

There we go. That’s what a cat looks like.

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

That one has five arms.

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

That one looks normal. Okay, we’re getting it; we’re getting there. All right, so it’s not all of them.

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

And we’re back.

You can watch her full video here

AI-generated books are already being seen as cash grabs

Temu isn’t the only platform where sellers are trying to distribute their AI-generated coloring books. Peoplehave been talkingabout how there are similar ones offered on Amazon, too.

In fact, there areentiretutorialsthat promise to help you get into this practice and make big bucks.

And there’s a good reason why you don’t see big letters on the cover informing you about its artificial origins. Recently, scientists have found that for some, it challenges what it is to be human (and, as a result, probably deters them from buying such products).

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

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In some places, authorities are trying to help the situation. For example, New York State Assemblymember Jonathan Rivera introduced a bill to mitigate the use of artificial intelligence-generated content in online bookselling.

Thebillwould require online booksellers who are distributing content created wholly or partially with generative AI to disclose such use before a sale.

“There’s no responsibility at all to have these people that are just churning out what they’re calling books and selling them quickly purely to make a profit, not to educate children, not to inform people, not to bring well-thought-out literature to people,” Riveraexplained. “It’s all just a money grab.”

“As this new technology becomes interwoven into the publishing world, consumers deserve full transparency about who (or what) wrote, illustrated, or otherwise designed the books they are buying for themselves, their children, their students, or new language learners,” the bill’s justification section states.

But until such safeguards become standard practice, we’re left to make retaliatory TikToks to get back at dishonest businesses.

People have had a lot of colorful reactions to the TikTok

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

Woman Thinks She Bought A “Normal” Kitty Coloring Book, Starts Noticing Odd Things About It

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