A few times lately I’ve had odd star-like things randomly crop up in Bing/DE3 images. For instance, here they are on anthropomorphic cigars wielding lightsabers.
They looked like something that probably actually existed, but I couldn’t get positive results with Google Lens.
So today I was trying to produce a whey in a manger and it seems almost impossible to render a set of images and not get some of them.
This time Google Lens was able to identify them as star anise. Now the question is why they are being associated with cigars, or whey.