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.
Restaurants, Please Stop Using AI-Generated Photos of Your Food
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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Restaurants face backlash over AI-generated food photos
AI is turning restaurant menus into nightmare fuel.
Ugly AI Food Photos Are Only the Beginning
Restaurant menus with AI-generated food images are going viral for their off-putting aesthetic. But AI’s impact on modern menus runs even deeper.
Why restaurants are facing backlash for fake food pictures | CNN
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.
Why AI food looks like that
Worms, holes, and cracks reveal the technical weaknesses of image generators.
Uber Eats Will Use AI To Make Restaurant Food Photos Look Better Than They Are - BGR
Uber Eats is introducing a few new AI features for restaurants, including automated menu descriptions and enhancing low-quality photos.
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.
Food delivery app tries AI menu images, diners flag photo of meat and eggs floating in cola
An effort by Just Eat to make sparse restaurant menus look more complete with artificial intelligence-made food pictures instead became an online punchline.
Meta’s going to put AI-generated images in your Facebook and Instagram feeds
Facebook and Instagram feeds are about to get messier.
The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop
Why does it feel so unsettling when restaurants use generative A.I. to create their menus and promotional materials?
Our minds did not evolve for AI
AI is mental junk food: tasty and tempting, but ultimately unhealthy — a cognitive hot dog
Is That Restaurant’s AI Slop False Advertising?
It’s lazy, cheap, and misleading — but did your local diner break any laws by posting that altered image of that uncanny burger? Ravenous speaks with Truth In Advertising for answers.
Why we fell for clean eating
The long read: The oh-so-Instagrammable food movement has been thoroughly debunked – but it shows no signs of going away. The real question is why we were so desperate to believe it
Hello Local Business, Your AI Ads Are Costing You Customers
'Even if this was a genre popularised by human artists, it would still look like shit'
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.
