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AI-generated food photos and menus are creeping into restaurants, but the uncanny images, mangled descriptions, and synthetic polish come at a cost: diners’ trust. When it comes to selling food, even an imperfect photo can be far more appetizing when it’s unmistakably real.
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Generative AI is being used to advertise food around the world to the disdain of many beholders. But there are real reasons why consumers are repelled by the sometimes bizarre-looking meals.
Restaurants face backlash over AI-generated food photos
AI is turning restaurant menus into nightmare fuel.
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The proliferation of artificially generated images has been rapid, to say the least. It's even spread to restaurants. Here's why I think it's a bad sign.
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Uber Eats is introducing a few new AI features for restaurants, including automated menu descriptions and enhancing low-quality photos.
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Why does it feel so unsettling when restaurants use generative A.I. to create their menus and promotional materials?
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For AI Food Slop, Gross Is in the Eye of the Beholder
AI food imagery would still be a problem even if it didn't look horrifying.
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Identifying AI-generated images with SynthID
Today, in partnership with Google Cloud, we’re beta launching SynthID, a new tool for watermarking and identifying AI-generated images. It’s being released to a limited number of Vertex AI customers using Imagen, one of our latest text-to-image models that uses input text to create photorealistic images. This technology embeds a digital watermark directly into the pixels of an image, making it imperceptible to the human eye, but detectable for identification. While generative AI can unlock huge creative potential, it also presents new risks, like creators spreading false information — both intentionally or unintentionally. Being able to identify AI-generated content is critical to empowering people with knowledge of when they’re interacting with generated media, and for helping prevent the spread of misinformation.
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AI Policy - The Takeout
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One of my buddies is a professional chef and was grousing about how his boss keeps doing AI instead of taking photos for his dishes and it's frankly *more expensive* than a photographer because of the amount of manhours it takes him to tell her that the images are both wrong and look like shit.
Faine Greenwood
it really is amazing how gross this house AI slop style makes food look.
