‘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

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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.