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Re: Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

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Post by codemog »

dev0p wrote: post #48

The loss of personality is real. The most heartbreaking ones I've seen are in schools, or anywhere that children are involved. For example, at my local preschool there was a wall flyer with information about what to bring the swimming pool. It had the most crudely drawn fishes and crabs and seahorses that I had ever seen. It was clear that whoever drew that had no prior experience with anything even remotely resembli…

People have posted prolific artists, called it AI, and had everyone hating them until the big reveal. So to be frank, it probably is in your head.

Re: Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

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Post by nitwit005 »

floatrock wrote: post #20

We always expect what was promised to be different than what was delivered to some degree, but I'm not sure restaurants have fully weighed the expectations-vs-reality backlash this may cause... uncannily-wrong details aside for a sec, the AI pics always set michelin-level presentation expectations. The final promise-vs-plate pics in this post were pretty dramatic. There's always a class of restaurants where they don'…

I think the problem will tend to be more mundane. Picture shows nine chicken tenders, but you get three. You're going to wonder where your other six chicken tenders are.

Re: Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

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Post by customguy »

simonw wrote: post #125
customguy wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the argument here? People don't like spit in their food, how many people can tell their food got spat in? Does that mean they're somehow wrong or to be belittled for not liking spit in their food?

It's not an argument, it's an open question: do people who express a dislike of AI know when they see a poster that was generated with assistance from AI?

I meant to ask what the point of the question is basically. What would change, what would it matter for, if the answer was yes or no?

Besides it being so general a question to really be useless as anything but an insinuation IMO, which is why I'm trying to tease that insinuation out. E.g. are people who use Apple left-handed? Are they gay? The answer is "yes, some of them, of course, but also many aren't... why are you asking?"

There is no thing as "just a question, nothing in mind really". That does not exist. The mind that can ask a question cannot arrive at it in a vacuum.

Re: Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

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Post by decimalenough »

qingcharles wrote: post #86
mjhay wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the US, some of those apps were generating gross nonsense like showing an image of a pizza with a sweet pie filling (because the menu said “pizza pie”). I don’t get how AI images like this don’t open them up to false advertising lawsuits

This one is really disturbing because I can't tell what the food is even supposed to be without looking at the words, plus trypophobia: https://imgur.com/a/YvyRjts

C'mon, how bad can it be...

...OK, that's not just bad, that's positively disturbing.

Re: Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

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Post by jackvalentine »

somewhereoutth wrote: post #122
qingcharles wrote: post #83

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Almost none, sadly. Most of the population just doesn't have that skill, which is why places like Facebook are just reams of AI Jesus upvoted to the Moon. I saw this menu online the other day, and it's not even discernable from the photo what the food products are; it even sets off trypophobia: https://imgur.com/a/YvyRjts But people are still ordering it.

I suspect it is a fair representation of the food you would receive - looks kinda like real food, but actually isn't.

Here is a picture of the food you actually get along with the poster.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1uv0xcq/...

Re: Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

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Post by dspillett »

dev0p wrote: post #48

The loss of personality is real. The most heartbreaking ones I've seen are in schools, or anywhere that children are involved. For example, at my local preschool there was a wall flyer with information about what to bring the swimming pool. It had the most crudely drawn fishes and crabs and seahorses that I had ever seen. It was clear that whoever drew that had no prior experience with anything even remotely resembli…

> The most heartbreaking ones I've seen are in schools, or anywhere that children are involved.

Not heartbreaking, but the ones that get my goat up most are flyers from craft fairs and worse places promising to teach crafts/arts. How is that not a sign to walk very quickly in the other direction? Or maybe it is intentional, like some bad spam text apparently being intentional to weed out the people who are less likely to fall from the scam anyway…

Re: Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

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Post by markdown »

pibaker wrote: post #121
joshstrange wrote: post #67

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Just so I have this clear, you rate a restaurant badly based on the pictures of the food and not the taste/flavor/etc? These places are doing their best to compete in a cutthroat environment with often razor-thin margins but you are willing to write them off and actively try to harm them for reaching for a tool to try and meet consumer's ever-increasing expectations? Just like in the native vs electron debate it's no…

> but you are willing to write them off and actively try to harm them for reaching for a tool to try and meet consumer's ever-increasing expectations? Emotional blackmailing aside, does the consumer ever expect fake images of the food they purchase in the menu?

Yes. In some countries, plastic versions of dishes are displayed.
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